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[[underline]] Chapter X. [[/underline]] 214. the objects pertaining to the newly discovered "Indus civilization", lately brought from the sites at Mohenjo-daro and Harappa to the Calcutta Museum but not yet placed on exhibition. This collection I was particularly gratified to see, as I had just read a most interesting account of it in the [[underline]] Illustrated London News. [[/underline]] [[superscript]] (193) [[/superscript]] The culture which they repre- ------------------------- [[superscript]] (193) [[/superscript]] See the [[underline]] Illustrated London News [[/underline]] for Sept. 20, 1924, pp.528 [[strikethrough]] sqq [[/strikethrough]] [[underline]] sqq. [[/underline]], Sir John Marshall, "First Light on a Long-Forgotten Civilisation: New Discoveries of an unknown Prehistoric Past in India". For additional information in regard to this discovery, which with that of the Minoan civilization occupies a foremost place in recent archaeological research, it is scarcely necessary to mention Sir John Marshall's great three-volume work [[underline]] Mohenjo-daro and the Indus Civilisation [[/underline]], London, 1931. --------------------------------- sented was a notable addition to the list of great river-valley civilizations already known to have sprung up in various parts of the ancient world, along a zone which extended from Egypt on the west to China on the east. [[superscript]] (194) [[/superscript]] ------------------------- [[superscript]] (194) [[/superscript]] Except at its eastern extremity, where it bends somewhat to the northward, this belt of land coincides fairly closely with the southern borders of the north temperate zone of the Old World. Its position and character appear to better advantage on a terrestrial globe than on a two-dimensional map. --------------------------------- At Bombay I saw the Prince of Wales Museum, and visited the Island of Elephanta, with their interesting examples of ancient Hindu sculpture. From India I proceeded, by way of the Suez Canal, to Europe. While in Paris I saw as much as possible of the Musée Guimet, the Musée Cernuschi, and the Louvre. At the last named, as also at the British Museum a little later, in addition to the Chinese collections I devoted considerable time to study of the Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities. My own particular interest was of course the archaeology of China. That subject however, I had felt from the first, should properly be treated not as a thing apart---a wholly independent and isolated phenomenon in culture-history; but comparatively, in the light of all
