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Priest-King (Mohenjo-daro statue)
The Priest-King is a carved steatite bust of a bearded man wearing a fillet headband, excavated at Mohenjo-daro, Pakistan, in 1925-26 and held in the National Museum, Karachi.
Quetta ware
Quetta ware is a black-on-buff painted ceramic tradition of the Quetta valley in northern Balochistan, Pakistan, made by settled pre-Harappan farming villages during the 4th and 3rd millennia BC.
Rakhaldas Banerji
Rakhaldas Banerji, also known as R. D. Banerji, was an Indian archaeologist and historian who excavated Mohenjo-daro in 1922–23, establishing its great antiquity and its link to the Indus civilization.
Rangpur culture
The Rangpur culture is the Late Harappan culture of Gujarat in western India, defined at the type site of Rangpur and characterized by Lustrous Red Ware pottery.
Ravi phase
The Ravi phase, also called the Ravi aspect, is the earliest known occupation at Harappa, a village settlement of hand-built pottery dating from about 3700 to 2800 BCE.
Religion of the Indus Valley Civilisation
The religion of the Indus Valley Civilisation, the Harappan civilization of about 2600 to 1900 BC, is known only from seals, figurines, architecture, and burials, as its script is undeciphered.
Sanauli chariots
The Sanauli chariots, also written Sinauli, are three wood-and-copper two-wheeled vehicles from about 2000 BC, found in warrior burial pits at Sinauli, Uttar Pradesh, and announced in 2018.
Shu-ilishu interpreter seal
Shu-ilishu's cylinder seal is a small engraved stone cylinder seal in the Louvre whose Akkadian inscription names Shu-ilishu as interpreter of the land of Meluhha.
Sothi-Siswal culture
The Sothi-Siswal culture, also called the Siswal culture, is an Early Harappan archaeological culture of Haryana and northern Rajasthan, named after the type sites Sothi and Siswal.
Togau phase
The Togau phase is a pre-Harappan ceramic phase of Balochistan, Pakistan, defined by distinctive painted pottery discovered by Beatrice de Cardi and dated to the 5th and 4th millennia BC.
Unicorn seals
Unicorn seals are Mature Harappan Indus stamp seals, usually of burnt steatite, dating to about 2600–1900 BCE; their single-horned bovid is the most common motif on inscribed Indus seals.