Fired Brick Platform, Mohenjo-daro [16]
Area not known
This photo shows a small fired brick platform made with a layer of bricks on edge covered by two courses of bricks laid flat. In the background is a mudbrick platform.
Black and White Ancient Indus Civilization Images
Excavations in Trench A from South
"Four other trial trenches were dug in site F in places which appeared most favourable for examination.
Two Shell Ladles
Examples of one of the finest and most distinct of Indus craft objects.
Yellow Stone and Pierced Terracotta Balls and Stone Implement
"Balls in terracotta, stone, shell, and faience have been found universally at Harappa, those in terracotta being recovered in specially large numbers."
Deep cutting near north-west corner of monastery, showing pavement of seventh stratum
[Original 1931 text] "To have cleared these remains completely or even to the extent of recovering the main lines of their plans would have meant dismantling the Buddhist buildings above them, and, as ther were obvious objections to removing such
Aerial View of Mohenjo-daro [107A]
Aerial View from South
Early Aerial view of the Citadel Mound at Mohenjo-daro (looking south), showing the excavations in SD area prior to the work conducted by Wheeler in 1950. A path and stairs lead from the musum campus area to the stupa on the
Street between Blocks 1 and 2 in SD Area, looking north
Photographed between 1922-27 and published in Sir John Marshall, Mohenjodaro and The Indus Civilization (1931).
Game Board
A wide variety of game pieces from Mohenjo-daro on a modern wooden board.
Sir John Marshall, one of the earliest excavators at Mohenjo-daro writes in the monumental work summarizing the first finds at the site (Mohenjo-daro and the Indus Civilization
Chest of a Figurine
"This object is actually part of a composite figurine of a gharial, the narrow snouted crocodile that used to live in the local rivers and ox-bow lakes. The animal is commonly depicted on terracotta and steatite tablets and on intaglio seals.