The Indus Civilization c11.2

c11.2

As the reader will, no doubt, ask himself how it has been possible to assign any definite date to the Indus civilization, it may be interesting at this juncture to go further into a matter which has already been briefly touched upon in Chapter I, and to explain how it is that the excavations in Mesopotamia during the last fifteen years have supplied the key to early Indian chronology.