Computer scientists in Silicon Valley who dream of cracking the Indus Valley script will find in Andrew Robinson s bibliography pointers to the Corpus of Asko Parpola or the names of Iravatham Mahadevan, Gregory Possehl, Walter Fairserris, J. M. Kenoyer and other leading scholars in the field. This little book, however, is aimed at the educated general reader, and is the first in a series of guides to the present state of knowledge of the great Bronze Age civilisations. The small scale of most of the recovered artefacts make the copious illustrations particularly enlightening, and there is an adequate map. Robinson writes with an elegant clarity which comes from a masterly overview of the subject and transmits some of the mysterious excitement which this enigmatic civilisation evokes.
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