T I M E L I N E

== A very helpful timeline, with maps: *Metropolitan Museum*

I M A G E S

== Even before the Vedas: everything you always wanted to know about the Indus Valley Civilization, at *harappa.com*

== A page of a manuscript of the Rig Veda: *Schoyen Collection*

== A brief sample of Vedic chant: *BBC*

== Another sample, the famous "Gayatri Mantra": *vedavid*

T E X T S

== Prof. Raimon Panikkar, "The Vedic Experience: Hinduism's Contemporary Holy Bible": *himalayanacademy*

== A. A. Macdonnell's classic introduction (1917) to the Vedic gods: *sacred-texts*

== Vedic texts online: the Rig Veda translated by Ralph Griffith (1896): *sacred-texts*

== Compare the Rig Veda with the Zend Avesta: *avesta.org*

== The best website on Proto-Indo-European and its language family: *PIE*

== Controversies about the Indus Valley and Vedic times are alive and well in modern India; a recent (2000) notable example was the "Horseplay in Harappa" episode, reported in *Frontline magazine*

== The Vedas in a British colonial perspective: the *Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908-31)*

== Wendy Doniger, "The Land East of the Asterisk" (2008): *London Review of Books*

== Michael Witzel, "Autochthonous Aryans? The Evidence from Old Indian and Iranian Texts": in PDF form : *EJVS 7,3 (May 2001)*; and many other scholarly articles from the Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies: *EJVS archives*

== John R. Gardner's large and complex research site: *vedavid*