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Mohenjo-daro

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

Narrow Streets, DK-G Area

  • Mohenjo-daro, Narrow Streets, DK-G Area

The doors of later buildings can be seen in the upper levels of the wall to the left. The gradual tapering of the walls in the far right was an intentional architectural feature to avoid collapse of the upper floors. >

Rain Outlets, DK-I Area

  • Mohenjo-daro, Rain Outlets, DK-I Area

Close-up view of ground floor drain outlet from the street side, showing a brick on edge with a notch was placed across the drain hole to keep objects from flowing out with the bath water. >

Excavation Site

It was one of 388 unicorn seals found during the excavations in Mohenjo-daro led by the British archaeologist Ernest Mackay between 1927 and 1931. Mackay dated the seal to the late Period IB, or approximately 2,000 B.C >

Mohenjodaro

Mohenjodaro, Larkana District, Sindh, Pakistan in 1962. >

Aerial View of Mohenjo-daro [107A]

  • Aerial View of Mohenjo-daro

Aerial View from South Early Aerial view of the Citadel Mound at Mohenjo-daro (looking south), showing the excavations in SD area prior to the work conducted by Wheeler in 1950. A path and stairs lead from the musum campus area to the stupa on th… >

Mohenjo-daro Citadel Gateway [110]

  • Mohenjo-daro Citadel Gateway

ACC - Citadel Gateway Southeast Room associated with the massive fired brick walls at the southeastern corner of the Citadel Mound. Wheeler identified this structure as a fortification wall and postern gate. No. 110 also 1114… >

Mohenjo-daro Citadel Gateway Excavations [112]

  • Mohenjo-daro Citadel Gateway Excavations

ACC - Citadel Gateway Southeast Excavations of the gateway area viewed from the southeast, looking northwest. The brick walls and rooms have been fully exposed. See slide 26Q for a view from the north. No. 112 >

Brick Platform, Mohenjo-daro [37]

  • 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 mud brick platform. The section profile on the left shows a layer of debris on top… >

Pottery

Photographed between 1922-27 and published in Sir John Marshall, Mohenjodaro and The Indus Civilization (1931). >

VS Area, Section A. Block I, House II: Room 23, showing brick floor with dyeing troughs

[Original 1931 caption] "House II. - Rooms 1 to 26, covering a rectangular area of 86 ft. 10 in. by 64 ft. 5 in. to the north of the building just described, appear originally to have belonged to one and the same house, which had two entrances openi… >

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