Henry Heras - Proto-historian and Archeologist

Proto-historian and Archeologist

From 1935 on he turned his attention to the newly excavated archeological sites of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa: he was particularly keen on deciphering the inscriptions of the so-called Indus Valley Civilization. He wrote numerous articles on the topic, summing up finally his research in what will remain his master piece: Studies in Proto-Indo-Mediterranean Culture (1953) in which he proposed a solution to the mysterious script of Mohenjo-Daro, and established cultural links between the Indus Valley Civilization and the Sumerian-Egyptian civilization. Though the deciphering he proposed is not yet fully convincing it is "gaining ever greater acceptance by the specialists".