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Mohenjo-daro

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

Mohenjo-daro Granary Wheeler Excavations [163 A]

  • Mohenjo-daro Granary Wheeler Excavations

REM Granary Workmen are seen at different levels of the so called granary structure to provide scale for this massive building. The upper worker is sitting in a narrow walkway between blocks of brick foundations. The middle worker is standing nex… >

First Street, Lower Levels Mohenjo-daro [57]

  • First Street, Lower Levels Mohenjo-daro

DK-G Lower levels of Street 1 in DK- G area of Mohenjo-daro. The buildings on the left were excavated under the supervision of K. N. Dikshit and then later by E. J. H. Mackay in the 1920's-30's. To the right, the walls have been exposed but the int… >

Mohenjo-daro Citadel Gateway Excavations [33]

  • 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 are visible just below the surface of the mound. No. 33 >

Statuette of red stone from Harappa

[Original 1931 text] "The treatment of the red stone torso could hardly be simpler or more direct. The pose is a frontal one with shoulders well back and abdomen slightly prominent; but the beauty of this little statuette is in the refined and wonde… >

Group of skeletons in Room 74, House V.

  • Group of skeletons in Room 74, House V.

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

Wheeler's List 2 Plates [160B-170]

  • Wheeler's List 2 Plates

Disc

  • Disc

Possibly a counting or prayer disc, made of bone. 5.8 cm in diameter, 0.45 cm thick. Note how perfectly the circles are impressed. Found in the VS Area. In a previous post I had argued that the total dots add up to 32, or 4 x 8, and possibly the Ind… >

Two Shell Ladles

  • Shell ladle

Examples of one of the finest and most distinct of Indus craft objects. >

Polychrome Pottery

INDICATING A HIGH DEGREE OF DECORATIVE ART IN THE PREHISTORIC PERIOD AT MOHENJO-DARO: THREE FRAGMENTS OF POLYCHROME POTTERY WITH DESIGNS OF VARIOUS PATTERNS. >

Street, Mohenjo-daro

At Mohenjo-daro narrow streets and alleyways branch off of the major streets, leading into more private neighborhoods. Many of the brick houses were two stories high, with thick walls and high ceilings to keep the rooms cool in the hot summer months… >

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