Mohenjo-daro

Videos on Mohenjo-daro in the ancient Indus Valley Civilization.

Amar Jaleel at Mohenjo-daro

7:40

Walking tour of Mohenjo-daro in 2013. High Quality footage, some captions, no commentary, very useful for education purposes - to introduce the site, and promote discussion of its key features and buildings. Includes the Museum & shows damage done by erosion. >

In Search of Meluhha: The Story of Mohenjodaro

30:22

The talented filmmaker Saqib Mausoof's work on Mohenjo-daro integrates the ancient into lived experience from individual viewpoints of a range of people inspired by Mohenjodaro, ideas about it, and its iconic artifacts; Mohenjo-daro ought to be far better known, and conserved and it can mean many things to us. >

Moenjodaro 360 – A walkthrough of the ancient civilisation

3:39

Faras Ghani

A critical news report from Al-Jazeera about the state of the site in 2017, with footage which shows the difference between the city these days, and the relatively recent past. >

Drone view of Mohenjodaro

8:57

National Fund for Mohenjodaro

A beautiful, patient aerial tour of the site that contextualizes the relationship of the stupa mound, Great Bath and other areas to each other in a way no other way of visiting the site can. >

Mohenjo Daro 101

3:14

National Geographic

A well-done National Geographic piece introducing the ancient city with excellent aerial views and the compelling factoid that Mohenjo-daro's size was 5x that of Vatican city. >

Dr Jonathan Mark Kenoyer in International Conference on the Indus Script, Mohenjodaro

31:43

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer

The keynote talk at the January 2020 Conference on the Indus Script at Mohenjo-daro covers larger themes on the Indus Valley civilization, the latest research and promising avenues of exploration by a variety of scholars present. >

The Archaeology of Indus Urbanism: Comparing Mohenjo Daro, Harappa and Dholavira

1:21:32

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer

Dr. Jonathan Mark Kenoyer compares three ancient Indus urban centers in the 3rd millennium BCE. An expansive, illustrated look at Indus civilization and its many threads from Mehrgarh in 7000 BCE on, with a focus on domestication, indigenous populations and trade networks. >

Understanding the Discovery of the Harappan Civilization

1:13:27

Nayanjot Lahiri

The author of Finding Forgotten Histories How the Indus Civilization was Discovered tells the story of the earliest investigators and discoveries that led to Harappa and Mohenjo-daro being recognized as remants of a large Bronze Age Civilization that we now know stretched over much of the north-western subcontinent. >

Building a Heterarchic Society The Concept of City and Urban Life in the Indus Civilization

27:51

Dennys Frenez

Drs. Dennis Frenez and Massimo Vidale, two leading Indus scholars discuss the layout and features in Mohenjo-daro, including the so-called "Little Great Bath" and Indus water symbolism. Interesting conjectures around, for example, structures around trees in the city, as well as some of the more interesting houses in the city's HR-A area, including Marshall's House VIII that suggests some houses endured, with changes, for centuries. >

Caring for Mohenjo-daro

1:00:21

Uzma Rizvi

An overview, with very recent drone footage, of the site describing a major project to understand the site better on a micro-level and the many methods of "care" involved in its maintenance, then and now. >