The Indus Civilization c5.26

c5.26

There is at present no evidence that the houses had windows, and light and air seem to have been admitted chiefly through the doorways. Grills of pottery and alabaster have been discovered whose use appears to have been to cover small apertures set high up in the walls, but these gratings are comparatively rare, probably because the majority of them were made of wood, which has not survived. Windows are not really necessary in a hot country, where the heat has to be shut out as we exclude the cold. Some houses appear to the visitor to have them, but these openings are really the doorways of a higher level of the city (Pl. G, a).