The Indus Civilization c5.76

c5.76

Although in the material used and in the stability and carefulness of their construction these burnt-brick cities are certainly equal to any later work found in India or elsewhere, they are far from remarkable for beauty, refinement, or decorative value. One house is so like another, with its plain, unrelieved walls, that to the modern eye something seems sadly lacking in the mental and spiritual equipment of the builders. Except for occasional floods, there must have been little to upset the humdrum routine of these busy communities of traders, a state of affairs which doubtless brought about the atrophy of the artistic qualities of their members.