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Indus @ the NMP Karachi

National Museum of Pakistan

The National Museum of Pakistan was established in 1949 and shifted to his building in Burns Garden in Karachi in 1970. The Indus galleries hold a number of the earliest and most famous objects found in Mohenjo-daro during excavations in the 1920s and 1930s, including the famous "priest-king", which is represented by a replica in the gallery. It has been a long time since the "priest-king" faced admiring audiences.

In recent years, the de-evolution of archaeology to the provinces (Mohenjo-daro is in Sindh) has made federal collections like this – were once property of the colonial Archaeological Survey of India under Sir John Marshall – somewhat unclear.

The second and third images above shows the main hall of the gallery, called "Proto Historic" above the entranceway.

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