Modesty, order, and cleanliness were apparently preferred. Pottery and tools of copper and stone were standardized. Seals and weights suggest a system of tightly controlled trade. The city's wealth and stature is evident in artifacts such as ivory, lapis, carnelian, and gold beads, as well as the baked-brick city structures themselves.
A watertight pool called the Great Bath, perched on top of a mound of dirt and held in place with walls of baked brick, is the closest structure Mohenjo Daro has to a temple. Possehl, a National Geographic grantee, says it suggests an ideology based on cleanliness. Wells were found throughout the city, and nearly every house contained a bathing area and drainage system.
Archaeologists first visited Mohenjo Daro in Several excavations occurred in the s through Small probes took place in the s, and subsequent digs occurred in and The ancient city sits on elevated ground in the modern-day Larkana district of Sindh province in Pakistan. During its heyday from about to B. It spread out over about acres hectares on a series of mounds, and the Great Bath and an associated large building occupied the tallest mound.
According to University of Wisconsin, Madison, archaeologist Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, also a National Geographic grantee, the mounds grew organically over the centuries as people kept building platforms and walls for their houses. With no evidence of kings or queens, Mohenjo Daro was likely governed as a city-state, perhaps by elected officials or elites from each of the mounds. A miniature bronze statuette of a nude female, known as the dancing girl, was celebrated by archaeologists when it was discovered in , Kenoyer notes.
Of greater interest to him, though, are a few stone sculptures of seated male figures, such as the intricately carved and colored Priest King, so called even though there is no evidence he was a priest or king. The sculptures were all found broken, Kenoyer says. Kenoyer suggests that the Indus River changed course, which would have hampered the local agricultural economy and the city's importance as a center of trade.
But no evidence exists that flooding destroyed the city, and the city wasn't totally abandoned, Kenoyer says. And, Possehl says, a changing river course doesn't explain the collapse of the entire Indus civilization. Throughout the valley, the culture changed, he says. A person standing in the doorway of the Monastery at Petra, Jordan, shows the enormity of the ancient building's entrance.
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Foundries for making copperware were also discovered. Ornaments made of semi-precious stones, gold etc. Besides Lothal, Rangpur on the bank of Bhadar river in Surendranagar district was the first Harappan site in the state to be excavated. Though it was excavated recently, the Dholavira site has remained free from encroachment in historical periods as well as in the modern era.
Since the excavation at the site, the ASI has developed a museum here. Dholavira, a village with a population of around 2,, is the nearest human settlement at present. Near the ancient city is a fossil park where wood fossils are preserved. Click here to join our channel indianexpress and stay updated with the latest headlines.
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