Omar Khan

No grain, storage containers or clay sealings such as would have been attached to goods for shipment were found in the so-called "Granaries" of Harappa or Mohenjo-daro. Archaeologists today prefer to call these structures great halls, since they wer… >

No "Great Bath" like that in Mohenjo-daro has been found in Harappa, and it is not known if one existed among the miles of ruins carted off for railway construction in the early 1850's. A large bath does however exist very near the mounds, construc… >

Individual rooms are 15 by 6 meters long, and have sleeper walls for airspace between them. At each end of the rooms are three raised platforms. >

Contemporary guard hut overlooking the "Granary." Many questions about ancient Harappa will never be answered. But with the first modern, multi-disciplinary excavations of an Indus city at Harappa, many misconceptions are being laid to rest and much… >

Seals were used to make a sealing, or positive imprint, like this modern resin one made from the original seal. Sealings were used in ancient times for trade. They would be made on ceramics or the clay tags used to seal the rope around bundles of go… >

There are no answers to the purpose of this structure; current speculation suggests it may have been a palace for a ruler or a ruling group, or perhaps even a building for priests such as the later Buddhist monasteries. >

A one kilometer to Harappa road sign in Urdu with Mound AB in the distance. >

This unicorn seal was also discovered during the late 1927-31 excavations at Mohenjo-daro. One theory holds that the bull actually has two horns, but that these have been stylized to one because of the complexity of depicting three dimensions. Howev… >

New possibilities might be forthcoming in the next two years [as written in 1998]. Excavations are due to begin in the small parts of the granary not completely excavated by the first archaeologists at Harappa, R. B. D. R. Sahni and M.S. Vats, betwe… >

Building remnants on Mound AB, Harappa in the morning. >