Because Google knows a disturbing amount about me, it knew that I was recently saying how I knew next to nothing about ancient Indian history. So when I was looking at recommendations on Youtube on my TV last night, it suggested a video about the Indus Valley civilisation.
Sure, this channel (Cogito) seems made for (I guess) kids at about an late primary school/early high school level, but if you know nothing about a subject, there's nothing wrong with starting there.
I thought it was pretty good, actually:
I wonder, though, if the language is still a mystery, whether some of the claims of how they lived are really accurate deductions from archaeology, or not.
I then saw that they also dealt with the old Indian king Ashoka, who I mentioned recently, so I got myself a short education about him too:
Ah, the internet being used for the forces of good instead of evil and misinformation. Warms the heart.
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