(2002 pop. 38,000). The city of Sehwan, Pakistan, is located in the lower Indus valley, 135 kilometers from the city of Hyderabad. Sehwan is one of the oldest settlements in the region and was once protected by a large fort whose remains exist to the...

, also known as Mohenjo-daro or the Indus valley civilization, flourished between 3000–1900 B.C. and is known only from archaeological excavations. Suffering from internal decline towards the end, it was finished off as a result of the Āryan...

The Indus Valley Civilization (c. 3300–1700 BCE, flourished 2600–1900 BCE), abbreviated IVC, was an ancient civilization that flourished in the Indus and Ghaggar-Hakra river valleys primarily in what is now Pakistan and western India,...

Within the Harappan or Indus Valley Civilization located in northwest South Asia, a dramatic shift towards more localized cultural units and away from urban complexes is thought to have begun at the end of the 3rd millennium BC. The reasons for decentralization and...

By RICHARD E BURTON. Third edition. Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints. Karachi: DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE, GOVERNMENT OF SINDH and OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1997. Pp. xxiv + 83; 4 plates. $21.95. In 1849 Richard Francis Burton (1821-90) returned to England, after spending seven...