Mohenjo_Daro Larkana sindh!
Mohenjo-daro was built around 2600 BCE and abandoned around 1500 BCE. It was rediscovered in 1922 by Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay,[2] an officer of the Archaeological Survey of India. He was led to the mound by a Buddhist monk, who believed it to be a stupa. In the 1930s, massive excavations were conducted under the leadership of John Marshall, K. N. Dikshit, Ernest Mackay, and others.[3] John
Marshall's car, which was used by the site directors, is still in the
Mohenjo-daro museum, showing their struggle and dedication to
Mohenjo-daro. Further excavations were carried out in 1945 by Ahmad Hasan Dani and Mortimer Wheeler.
The last major excavations were conducted in 1964-65 by Dr. George F. Dales.
After this date, excavations were banned due to damage done to the
exposed structures by weathering. Since 1965, the only projects allowed
at the site have been salvage excavation, surface surveys and
conservation projects. Despite the ban on major archaeological projects,
in the 1980s, teams of German and Italian survey groups, led by Dr.
Michael Jansen and Dr. Maurizio Tosi, combined techniques such as
architectural documentation, surface surveys, surface scraping and
probing, to determine further clues about the ancient civilization.[3]
[edit]Location
Mohenjo-daro is located in Sindh,
Pakistan on a Pleistocene ridge in the middle of the flood plain of the
Indus River Valley. The ridge is now buried by the flooding of the
plains, but was prominent during the time of the Indus Valley
Civilization. The ridge allowed the city to stand above the surrounding
plain. The site occupies a central position between the Indus River
valley on the west and the Ghaggar-Hakra river on the east. The Indus still flows to the east of the site, but the Ghaggar-Hakra riverbed is now dry.[4]
Anthropogenic
construction over the years was precipitated by the need for more room.
The ridge was expanded via giant mud brick platforms. Ultimately, the
settlement grew to such proportions that some buildings reached 12
meters above the level of the modern plain, and therefore much higher
than this above the ancient plain.[4]
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Mohenjo-daro (lit. Mound of the Dead, Sindhi: موئن جو دڙو, pronounced [muˑənⁱ dʑoˑ d̪əɽoˑ] ), situated in the province of Sindh, Pakistan, was one of the largest city-settlements of the Indus Valley Civilization. Built around 2600 BCE, it was one of the early urban settlements in the world, existing at the same time as the civilizations ofancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Crete. The archaeological ruins of the city are designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is sometimes referred to as "an ancient Indus valley metropolis"
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