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Ancient Indus Jewellery
Fired steatite was an important material used in many different types of Indus jewelry. Steatite beads are found in all four necklaces in the center of this collection of jewelry from Harappa and Mohenjo-daro. Jewelry ...
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Well, Mohenjo-daro
Private wells were rebuilt over many generations to serve the needs of a large household or neighborhood. This well in DK G area at Mohenjo-daro stands like a chimney because all of the surrounding earth has been removed ...
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The Great Bath, as seen from the south-west
[Original 1931 text] "The Great Bath, which I have reserved to the last, was part of what appears to have been a vast hydropathic establishment and the most imposing of all the remains unearthed ...
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Seal, Mohenjo-daro
Square seal with multiple headed animal depicting three important totemic animals: the bull, the unicorn, and the antelope. All three animals are seen individually on other seals along with script, but this seal has ...
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Seals, Mohenjo-daro
Other animal motifs appearing on seals found primarily at the largest cities include dangerous wild animals like the rhinoceros, the water buffalo, the gharial (crocodile) and the tiger. All of these animals would ...
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The So-called Unicorn
[Original text, 1931] It should, however, be borne in mind that these animals may perhaps represent the dieties of provinces, in exactly the same way as do the 'nome' animals of Egypt, all of which ...
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Portion of skeleton found above southern wall of Room 74, House V
[Original 1931 text] On 29th December, 1925, 1 foot below the surface, part of a skeleton was discovered above what proved later to be the southern wall of Room 74 of House V, Section B. All below the pelvis, save ...
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Lower Town in the mist
monastery complex on the "citadel" mound. All images appear Courtesy ...
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Statuette of grey stone from Harappa 2
prehistoric; they seemed to so completely upset all established ideas about early ...
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Indus Game Board
in Egypt and Mesopotamia all have a small number ot squares, on which only ... of this kind are found at all levels, except those of tetrahedral shape which ...