The Streets of Mohenjo-daro

  • HR Area, Lane 2, looking east with Block 2 on the left (late 1920s). The streets and alleyways wind through the neighborhood and are usually oriented along a strict grid plan, one of the most remarkable features of this four and half thousand year old city. The streets and alleyways wind through the neighborhood and are oriented along a strict grid plan. This street, called Divinity Street by the early excavators, as a small drain with brick coverings. The street runs north south along the east side of the College building. The massive walls on the right are the edges of houses buried beneath the Buddhist period Stupa.
    HR Area, Lane 2, looking east with Block 2 on the left (late 1920s). The streets and alleyways wind through the neighborhood and are usually oriented along a strict grid plan, one of the most remarkable features of this four and half thousand year old city. The streets and alleyways wind through the neighborhood and are oriented along a strict grid plan. This street, called Divinity Street by the early excavators, as a small drain with brick coverings. The street runs north south along the east side of the College building. The massive walls on the right are the edges of houses buried beneath the Buddhist period Stupa.

HR Area, Lane 2, looking east with Block 2 on the left (late 1920's). The streets and alleyways wind through the neighborhood and are usually oriented along a strict grid plan, one of the most remarkable features of this four and half thousand year old city.

See also The Silent Lanes of Mohenjo-daro.

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