Mohenjo-daro | Harappa

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. >

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. >

Harappan Expertise in Civil Engineering

2:07:30

Michel Danino

A lecture on the brilliance behind Indus architecture and civil engineering, with a focus on Dholavira. Michel Danino is an advocate of the Vedic origins of the Indus Civilisation. >

Ancient India From the Indus Valley Civilization to the Mughal Imperialism

9 minutes (from 0:00 to 9:00)

A short documentary of Indian history from the civilisations of Mohenjo Daro and Harappa through the ages until Islamic Imperialism. Featured historians include Sunil Kumar, Dr Vivek Nanda of UCL, Dr David Hardiman of Warwick University. >

Buried Treasure Mohenjo-daro (1957)

28:52

Mortimer Wheeler

Sir Mortimer Wheeler's tour, though outdated in many aspects, has some great footage, close shots of Indus objects, presented by this charismatic archaeologist and co-founder of the Institute of Archaeology, UK. >

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. >