Mohenjo-daro

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

Indus Interior

Mackay speculates on the owner of this building in Block 22, which may have looked something like this sketch by him of another Indus home (p. 154): I am inclined to think that this building was the house of some rich personage, for it is very

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Ancient Indus Street

Ancient Indus Street, Mohenjo-daro.

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An Unfinished Unfired Seal

One of the most intriguing of Indus inscriptions, displayed upside down in the glass case in the second image [above]. Was it going to be a seal or not? It looks like it. Dr.

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The Great Bath, as seen from the south-west

[Original 1931 text] "The Great Bath, which I have reserved to the last, was part of what appears to have been a vast hydropathic establishment and the most imposing of all the remains unearthed at Mohenjo-daro." (Marshall, Vol. I, p. 24)

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Mohenjo-daro Citadel Gateway Excavations [33]

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

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Mohenjo-daro Citadel Gateway [110]

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 pencilled in back

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Panoramic view of north-west part of VS Area, from west

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

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Mohenjo-daro "Citadel" Mound and Stupa

The eroded edges of the "citadel" mounds are covered with red brick dust and pottery, with traces of lighter mud brick revealing the underlying platforms that form the foundations of the uppermost buildings.