A British traveler came upon mysterious brick mounds in 1826. He overlooked them and thought of them only as old castles. These mysterious brick mounds were overlooked for a century until in the 1920s archaeologists began to take notice of these ruins. The once overlooked mysterious bricks were actually part of a lost civilization. What they uncovered was an ancient civilization that rivaled of the grand ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt. They uncovered the remains of large, magnificent, and well planned cities. The ancient civilization of the Indus Valley displayed public works, arts and architecture, and complex religions.

The Indus Valley civilization displayed organized public works within the planning and measuring of cities …show more content…
While other civilizations contained large wall paintings, monuments, and sculptures honoring a person, god, or religious figure the Indus Valley civilization did not have any of those. The people of the Indus Valley made small figures of animals and people using materials such as metal and clay. Archaeologists have uncovered a small statue of a Priest-King wearing a patterned robe. Artifacts of people give us clues to how the Indus Valley people lived. The Priest-King gives us hints of religious leaders holding positions of power and honor. Another example of this is a bronze figure of a dancing girl. This shows us that dancing was a part of the Indus society. The clothes she wears and the style of her hear give even more clues to what the people of Indus wore and styled themselves. Figures such as the dancing girl and the Priest-King give archaeologists clues on how the Indus people lived. The architecture of the Indus Valley was highly detailed and measured. The bricks that formed structures such as houses and walls were uniform in size. The Indus people used mud bricks to construct their houses and walls. Over time the Indus people built new houses. They built the new houses on top of existing houses. The cities contained houses that were very tall because of this. Cities like Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro in which archaeologists believe were the twin capitals of the Indus civilization were surrounded with large walls and