Discuss the Indus Valley civilization in regard to its location, architecture, and art forms. What themes are present in the art of Indus cultures that carry forward to subsequent eras?
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The Indus civilization developed in the Indus River valley of the Hindu Kush mountain range, which today is Pakistan. The engineering skills of the Indus architects were quite advanced, building their cities on stone foundations with straight stone-paved streets laid out in a grid pattern. Houses were constructed of fired brick.
The few artifacts found, including a small sandstone torso, revealed softly modeled, rounded forms, differing dramatically from ancient Mediterranean sculpture. A carved seal stone reveals an Indus writing system and includes a figure in a classic pose of meditation and images that suggest later Hindu gods.
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