"The whole district was known as Kar Karez and the track eventually took us through a village called Mundigak, the name Jean-Marie had borrowed for the mound.
[Original 1931 text] "A considerable number of buildings separated from each other by streets and lanes have been excavated in the southern portion of the stupa mound . . .. The terrain here descends more or less abruptly to the south, where a narrow
The female figurine, shown here with a replica in the background of the well-known "dancing girl" of Mohenjo-daro (that original is at the National Museum of India in New Delhi), may or may not be a dancing girl.
"The mound was covered with potsherds and brick bats, but no brick foundations were visible anywhere that might have served as a starting point."
- Daya Ram Sahni, Annual Progress Report of the Archaeological Survey [of India], Hindu and Buddhist
ACC - Citadel Gateway Southeast
Overview of the exacavations in progress at the southeast corner of the citadel mound. This area revealed a series of rooms and a small gateway that Wheeler identified as a postern gate (see 26Q).
Look at Mohenjo-daro
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
One of the most exciting developments in recent times has been new chronologies of Mundigak, interesting because they put the palace and head in this picture before the height of the ancient Indus civilization.