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Mohenjo-daro

Images of and objects from the ancient Indus city of Mohenjo-daro, Sindh.

Fired Brick Platform, Mohenjo-daro [16]

  • Fired Brick Platform, Mohenjo-daro

Area not known This photo shows a small fired brick platform made with a layer of bricks on edge covered by two courses of bricks laid flat. In the background is a mudbrick platform. The section profile on the left shows a layer of debris on top … >

Northern end of cutting on east side of Stupa, showing the Indus structures from north

[Original 1931 text] "Of the drains which served this building and which belonged to the later reconstruction, one (EE) is carried east and west along the inner side of its northern wall through Chambers 10 and 11 and so beneath the monastery shrine… >

Brahmani Bull (Bos indicus) Seals

[Original 1931 text] We have certain proof in Nos 327-40 and Possibly No. 542, that this type of bull was known in India in very early times. The characteristic hump on the shoulders allows of no doubt whatsoever. Fortunately the majority of seals o… >

Mohenjo-daro Citadel Gateway Southeast Corner

Not well-identified, this image seems to have been made on the south-east corner of what Wheeler called the Citadel Tower. >

Gameboard?

Ernest J.H. Mackay identified this piece as a gameboard, and wrote in Further Excavations (p. 574-5): "We have been fortunate in finding two boards on which same kind of game was played, though unluckily neither is complete. It is ikely that most… >

Prehistoric Buildings Excavated at Mohenjo-daro

[Note: All captions are presented as they are in the original The Illustrated London News issue of Sept. 20, 1924. This includes the all caps title below each image, and on the first page, the text below the set of images that appeared… >

Welcome to Mohenjo-daro

The Pakistan Tourist Development Corporation (PTDC) sign likely to have been freshly put up in 1973. >

Seal, Mohenjo-daro

Terracotta sealing from Mohenjo-daro depicting a collection of animals and some script symbols. This sealing may have been used in specific rituals as a narrative token that tells the story of an important myth. >

Terra cotta cones

Decorated terra cotta cones are found at both Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, but no one knows what they may have been used for. Some scholars suggest that they were hung on a string as a plumb-bob for use by masons and carpenters. Others feel that they m… >

Mohenjo-daro "Citadel" mound and Stupa in the mist

  • Mohenjo-daro Citadel mound and Stupa in the mist

Local villagers cross the site in a donkey cart in the early morning mist, with the Buddhist stupa perched on top of the "citadel" mound. The modern road winds through the low-lying area between the "citadel" and "lower town." >

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