You're Dead to Me Indus Civilization
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Dec 23, 2025 Explore the enigmatic Indus Civilization, one of the earliest urban societies, known for its impressive city planning and advanced sanitation systems. Discover how they built over 1,400 towns with wide streets suited for elephants and private toilets well ahead of their time. Uncover their fascinating diet featuring beef, mango, and turmeric, alongside their obsession with unicorns. Delve into the mysteries of their unreadable script and the mostly faceless societal structure. With humor and engaging storytelling, history is made fun and intriguing!
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Early Urban Networked Society
- The Indus civilisation (4,700–4,000 years ago) was one of the world's first urban societies with widespread city planning and shared material culture.
- Over 1,400 towns used similar pottery, beads and a common script, linking distant communities across modern Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.
Sophisticated City Planning
- Harappa and Mohenjo-daro used grid street planning and main roads nearly 10 metres wide, wide enough for elephants to pass each other.
- Their urban design shows sophisticated, long-distance planning long before classical empires like Rome.
Value Infrastructure Over Monuments
- Appreciate mundane infrastructure as a key marker of civilisational achievement rather than only monumental architecture.
- Look for sanitation, water and planning when assessing ancient societies' sophistication.