*Please note that this event has been cancelled*     The existence of this complex urban society that was the Indus or Harappan Civilisation, remained unknown until the 20 September 1924. It was then that Sir John Marshall, Director-General of Archaeology in the Raj, announced its discovery in the pages of the Illustrated London News. …

The son of a village doctor, Rutherford Alcock trained in medicine and became a battlefield surgeon, working in Portugal and Spain during the civil wars there in the 1830s. In a major career shift, he entered the consular service, went to China, and ended up as British Minister (the equivalent of today’s ambassador) to Japan…

  The art of Gandhāra—a region stretching across modern-day Pakistan and Afghanistan—has often been heralded as prime example of proto-globalization: its rich and syncretic visual vocabulary that freely borrows from Hellenistic, Iranian and Indian models easily lends itself to this discourse in the early centuries of the first millennium. Aquatic imagery in Gandhāra is one…