Image ID: 495506; Surrender of Porus to the Emperor Alexander. © NYPL Digital Gallery
Accompanying Alexander the Great when he advanced to the Indus Valley and confronted Porus and his elephants were men who wrote down what they saw. From then on, ancient India was no longer an unknown to the Greeks. It's not that no Westerner had gone that far east before, but it was rare. Most of what we know about the ancient Indus Valley civilization before the Macedonian invasion comes from the religious literature and archaeology. Read about the ancient historians who wrote about ancient India in: Ancient Historians of Ancient India or skip directly to passages written by:
- Plutarch
- Diodorus Siculus
- Arrian
- Quintus Curtius Rufus
- Justin
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