|[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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ancient Bengal language. He was born in 1885 and died in 1930 (1). He graduated with honors from Presidency College in Calcutta which is located in West Bengal in India. One of Bandyopadhyay’s most known discoveries was finding the site called Mohenjodaro. This was very important because this site was from the Harappan culture which dates back to approximately 2800 B.C(2). Along with finding this site‚ archaeologist Rakhaldas also wrote various books and articles that interpreted his findings. One
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Almost six weeks after its announcement‚ the much-awaited cultural extravaganza – the Sindh Festival – finally began on Saturday at Mohenjodaro with a lavish opening ceremony The cultural coup‚ masterminded by Pakistan People’s Party Patron-in-Chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari‚ is in the series of celebrations all over the province under the two-week-long Sindh Festival. With the historical
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it is situated far away from the sea coast. H.T Lambrick criticized this theory. H.T. Lambick suggest that shifting away of the Indus River is the reason. He point out that the Indus River keeps on shifting its course about 35 miles away from Mohenjodaro‚ which of this area deserted it due to shortage of agricultural land and also starved of water. But this theory cannot explain the decline of other
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Indus Valley Civilization. The earliest traces of civilization in the Indian subcontinent are to be found in places along‚ or close‚ to the Indus river. Excavations first conducted in 1921-22‚ in the ancient cities of Harappa and Mohenjodaro‚ both now in Pakistan‚ pointed to a highly complex civilization that first developed some 4‚500-5‚000 years ago‚ and subsequent archaeological and historical research has now furnished us with a more detailed picture of the Indus Valley Civilization and its
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Valley (2600-1500BCE) – associated with Dravidians. Called Harappan Culture The Ganges River Valley (1500-500BCE) – associated with the Aryans. Called the Vedic Age. Along the Indus & Saraswati‚ there were two major centres of this civilization: Mohenjodaro and Harappa hence Harappan Culture Other cities of this civilization include Kalibagan‚ Chanhudaro & Doraji in Gujerat Origins and Development This civilization appears as fully developed & distinctive culture; little is known about the cultures
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paintings can be seen in the Bhimbetaka paintings‚ belonging to the prehistoric age. Thereafter‚ an advanced town planning is seen in Harappa and Mohenjodaro‚ with their centrally planned cities indicating a highly developed architecture. Another remarkable example of sculpture from Harappan civilization comes in the form of the dancing girl from Mohenjodaro. The use of symbolic forms in India is as old as the Harappan seals. The fire altars of the Vedic period‚ with their astronomical and mathematical
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breasts and hips Found in India‚ this female figure has hair in large buns‚ large hips and breasts Notice the very clear features Mohenjo-Daro Dancing Girls Dancing girls in traditional dancing postures Tribal people Prostitutes Found in Mohenjodaro‚ close to a fireplace in
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BURIAL PRACTICES One of the most enlightening and problematic expressions of identity is burial practice. Burials link several lines of inquiry into a single research object. They represent a single or small series of closely linked events. Biology‚ art‚ religion‚ communication‚ society‚ and personal psychology can all ideally be preserved in or represented by burials. A burial can be a snapshot of a people and their culture. Research into the burial practices of the Harappan Civilization has
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Location Indus civilization‚ also called Indus valley civilization or Harappan civilization‚ the earliest known urban culture of the Indian subcontinent. It was first identified in 1921 at Harappa in the Punjab region and then in 1922 at Mohenjo-daro (Mohenjodaro)‚ near the Indus River in the
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