title: In Search of the Cradle of Civilization: New Light on Ancient India
author: Element Books Ltd.
description: With this work, the authors, all three renowned Yoga and Vedic scholars with multiple publications to their names, set out to challenge the generally held theory that advanced culture began in Sumer in southern Mesopotamia. Relying on a reexamination of redated Vedic literature and denying that an "Aryan invasion" from the north ever took place, which allegedly would have introduced advanced culture into India at a relatively late date, they claim instead that advanced culture already existed in the Indus valley?before the flourishing of Sumer. The work is broad in scope, well documented, and extensively illustrated. Although this book is written for the lay reader, the authors hope that it will stir the scholarly world as well. Public and academic libraries will want to have this title.?Ria Koopmans-de Bruijn, C.V. Starr East Asian Lib., Columbia Univ.<BR>Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  History Of Ancient Civilization
  
  
  [EDITOR'S
  NOTE](History%20Of%20Ancient%20Civilization_split_001.html#filepos7588)
  
  [CHAPTER I. THE ORIGINS OF
  CIVILIZATION](History%20Of%20Ancient%20Civilization_split_001.html#filepos28373)
  
  [CHAPTER II. HISTORY AND THE
  RECORDS](History%20Of%20Ancient%20Civilization_split_001.html#filepos45016)
  
  [CHAPTER III. ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE
  EAST](History%20Of%20Ancient%20Civilization_split_001.html#filepos59331)
  
  [CHAPTER IV. ASSYRIANS AND
  BABYLONIANS](History%20Of%20Ancient%20Civilization_split_001.html#filepos83879)
  
  [CHAPTER V. THE ARYANS OF
  INDIA](History%20Of%20Ancient%20Civilization_split_002.html#filepos105472)
  
  [CHAPTER VI. THE
  PERSIANS](History%20Of%20Ancient%20Civilization_split_002.html#filepos132715)
  
  [CHAPTER VII. THE
  PHOENICIANS](History%20Of%20Ancient%20Civilization_split_002.html#filepos152402)
  
  [CHAPTER VIII. THE
  HEBREWS](History%20Of%20Ancient%20Civilization_split_002.html#filepos167910)
  
  [CHAPTER IX. GREECE A