covered an area of 6oo kilometres‚ and from north to south of 100 kilometres. The first thing that strikes a visitor to an Indus site-be it Harappa or Mohenjo-daro in Pakistan ‚ Lothal‚ in India-is the town-planning. One finds the streets and lanes laid out according to a set plan: the main streets running at right angles. Both at Harappa and Mohenjo-daro the houses were made of kiln-burnt bricks. At Lothal too‚ mud bricks were used for most of the residential houses‚ kiln-burnt bricks in large quantities
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is well preserved. During the Mohenjo-daro excavations of 1927-1931‚ in which this seal was unearthed‚ 388 unicorn seals were found (Mackay 1938). Mackay suggested that the artist may have been trying to portray one horn behind the other‚ but due to the craftsman’s limited skills at depicting perspective‚ only one horn was indicated. This convention is seen on archaic Sumerian seals as well. Previous to Mackay‚ Marshall‚ in his 1922-1927 expeditions at Mohenjo-Daro‚ found a total of 558 seals (Marshall
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largest Harappan site After a gap of 13 years‚ excavation work will start once again at Rakhigarhi‚ estimated to be the largest Harappan civilization site located in Hisar district of Haryana. This early Harappan settlement‚ considered bigger than Mohenjo-daro‚ was listed among the 10 most endangered heritage sites in Asia just last year by the Global Heritage Fund‚ which is‚ incidentally‚ partnering with city-based Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute that will start fresh excavations
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Every country has its own characteristics and a person is recognized by his country. In this modern era‚ every country is trying to make progress and wants to be best among all other countries. All countries are different in world. There is no country that is exactly the same as others. Every country has its own culture‚ rules and regulations. Canada and Pakistan are two different countries and both countries have many differences regarding festivals‚ food and places. Festivals of
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|[pic] Mohenjo-daro (Urdu: موئن جودڑو‚ Sindhi: موئن جو دڙو‚ English: Mound of the dead) was a city of the Indus Valley Civilization built around 2600 BC and is located in the Sindh Province of Pakistan. This ancient five thousand year old city is the largest of Indus Valley and is widely recognized as one of the most important early cities of South Asia and the Indus Valley Civilization. Mohenjo Daro was one of the world’s first cities and contemporaneous with ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations
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valley of the Indus River. Remains of more than 100 cities‚ towns‚ and villages of the Indus Valley civilization have now been found from north of the Hindu Kush down the entire length of the Indus and beyond into peninsular India. Harappa and Mohenjo Daro are the two urban centers of Indus Valley civilization and the excavation of these sites reveal standardization and ordered society and ten centuries of relatively stable conditions. The city was amazingly well planned with broad main streets
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place or crafts place. They either made pots or jewelry. The men also were running the country as their job. The sons of the fathers had to learn what their father was doing and the generation was being passed down. The potters in the city of Mohenjo Daro made their pottery from wheels not from their hands. The seal makers in this city usually put animals or people as a design on the seals. There was also the economics that was a reason. People started to trade and live in larger groups. They traded
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Flourishing around 2500 B.C. a civilisation emerged on the plains and greater mountains of the Indus Valley. The civilisation known as the Harappan covered about 1‚000‚000km2 with two major urban centres of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa. It has been suggested that the Harappans were one of the early archaic states along with Mesopotamia and Egypt. This has provoked a number of questions of whether or not the Indus Civilisation was the kind of complex society that is generally connected with the state
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Web. 06 July 2013. 2. "Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation‚ 07 Apr. 2013. Web. 06 July 2013. 3. Swanson‚ Emily. "Harappan Civilization." : Ca. 3000-1500 BC. N.p.‚ 14 Sept. 1998. Web. 06 July 2013. 4. "The Mysteries of Mohenjo Daro." Pakistan Hotels. Pakistan Hotels‚ n.d. Web. 06 July 2013. 5. "stupa". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.‚ 2013. Web. 07 Jul. 2013 6. "Ruins of the Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur." - UNESCO World
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Indus and Yellow River Valleys • Origin and spread of ideas • Interaction between the “civilized” and “uncivilized” 1. Indus vs. Aryans • Note: Harappan civilization same as Indus • Historical Significance 1. Indus discovered to British in the 1840s (ruins knew earlier by locals) 2. British used Indus brick in railroad construction 3. Increasing interest in increases 4. Discovery of seals with writing intensifies interest 5. Harappa “discovered” in 1920s 6. They said it’s a “new”/ just
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