One relatively successful low cost techniques used to combat the destructive nature of salts in the fired bricks is to cover the walls with a thick layer of mud and straw plaster and to spray them with clay slurry. When the salts percolate to the su… >

View of the parallel wall area, Mound F, noted subsequently by Vats as the eastern part of the Great Granary. For Sahni’s and Vats’s description of the excavations of this area see Parallel Walls. See Plate III Vats 1940 Vol II, for a ‘Plan of… >

In Trench 57 West, excavations in 2001 revealed a large paving of backed bricks that may have been part of a courtyard or room originally bordered by massive baked brick walls. >

North end of Harappa Mound AB, looking down on the Kot Diji phase levels from the heights above the Harappa phase baked brick wall (on the right) that has been covered with protective plaster for conservation. In the background (to the North) is… >

Narrow brick walls define the outlines of a small room or courtyard in the low-lying area between L and SD Areas on the Citadel Mound. A standard size of mud brick and baked brick (7 x 14 x 28 cm) was used in house construction, and a different size… >

View of the parallel wall area, Mound F, noted subsequently by Vats as the eastern part of the Great Granary. For Sahni’s and Vats’s description of the excavations of this area see Parallel Walls. See Plate III Vats 1940 Vol II for a ‘Plan of … >