Mohenjo-daro

The winter sun rises over the site while the mist clings to the mounds. The mounds of the "lower town" are barely visible above the mist and in the foreground are the edges of brick structures belonging to the Buddhist monastery complex on the "cita… >

Some of the later houses in HR area were constructed on top of massive deposits of garbage consisting of brick rubble, broken pottery and sometimes a thin layer of crushed, vitrified terracotta nodules. Three sequences of rebuilding can be seen with… >

Looking south along Street 3, which runs parallel to First Street in HR area. Agricultural fields and scrub jungle south of the site are visible in the distance. >

This room in VS area was made with bricks set on edge to create a watertight floor. A small well was located in the southeast corner (top right) and circular brick depressions were set into the floor, presumably to hold pottery vessels. The early ex… >

The main street running north south along the east edge of the Great Bath ends with this unique brick platform. The hollow sockets would have held wooden beams that may have formed a gate or traffic control device. A small alley leads directly east … >

A bathing platform in SD area with brick floor made with flat paved bricks. Many bathing platforms were made with watertight floors constructed with bricks laid on their edge. >

Mackay writes about the large building in Block 22 (p. 152): "At the floor level of the Late II Phase this building measured 51 feet 3 inches, North-South, by 56 ft. long at the north and about 54 feet 9 ins. at the south. The thickness of its wa… >

View from Stupa towards Great Bath, Mohenjo-daro. >

REM Granary Wheeler had workmen lifting bags of grain with ropes to illustrate his interpretation of the loading dock at the north edge of the so-called "granary". The square voids in the wall face would have been where wooden beams were inserte… >

REM Granary Overview of the REM Granary excavations, viewed from the northwest. The fired brick mass of the western slope is visible at the right. No. 91 Also "1101" penciled on back >