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	Mohenjodaro India, Museum, Granary, Great Bath, Lothal, Stupa, Assembly Hall, Indus River Valley, Kot Diji, ...
		Mohenjodaro, one of the largest metropolises, was built on the west bank of the river.
		Mohenjodaro is not the original name, of course, but one given by local villagers referring to the 'mound of the dead': the tower and hillocks of abandoned debris of bricks that they had their forefathers had noticed in the surroundings.
		Kot Diji is 40 kilometers east of Mohenjodaro; Chanhu-daro (128 kilometers south of Mohenjodaro) bears evidence of a later phase of the civilization, and it would appear that the inhabitants had to move away from the older metropolises and set up shoddy settlements in nearby areas where conditions, economic and environmental, were still favourable.
	www.4to40.com /discoverindia/places/index.asp?article=discoverindia_places_mohenjodaro (1770 words)

	Pictorials in inscriptions of the Harappan script (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mohenjodaro, tablet in bas-relief; three sides of a prism (M-488); Mohenjodaro, seal (M-310): tiger, tree and the ‘temple’ sign.
		Mohenjodaro (M-1186) seal: An anthropomorphic figure kneels in front of a ‘fig’ tree with hands raised; another anthropomorphic figure stands inside the ‘fig’ tree.
		Mohenjodaro Tablet in bas relief (M-459); Dholalviar ringstone used as foundation-stone for pillar.
	www.hindunet.org /saraswati/signs/script2.html (558 words)

	History - The Indus Valley Civilisation
		Discovered in the 1920s, it was thought to have been confined to the valley of the river Indus, hence the name given to it was Indus Valley civilisation.
		This civilisation was a highly developed urban one and two of its towns, Mohenjodaro and Harappa, represent the high watermark of the settlements.
		Mohenjodaro and Harappa are now in Pakistan and the principal sites in India include Ropar in Punjab, Lothal in Gujarat and Kalibangan in Rajasthan.
	www.tourindia.com /history/indus.htm (610 words)

	Tamil Civilization
		Excavations in 1920 - 22 at Harappa and Mohenjodaro (which lie in what is now Pakistan) confirmed the existence of a hitherto unknown civilization in the Indus Valley.
		Indications exist that Harappa and Mohenjodaro which were strongly fortified citadels with rectangular watchtowers at regular intervals were seats of centralized government resembling that of autocratic priesthoods or priest-kings who combined the secular and religious administration, similar to temple rulers of Ur in Mesopotamia.
		The abandoning of Harrapa and Mohenjodaro was probably due to several factors such as sacking and flooding by invaders, progressive desiccation of the Indus Valley and dangers of floods.
	www.sangam.org /ANALYSIS/Heritage.htm (1908 words)

	Manas: History and Politics, Indus Valley
		Though the Indus Valley script remains undeciphered down to the present day, the numerous seals discovered during the excavations, as well as statuary and pottery, not to mention the ruins of numerous Indus Valley cities, have enabled scholars to construct a reasonably plausible account of the Indus Valley Civilization.
		The same kind of burnt brick appears to have been used in the construction of buildings in cities that were as much as several hundred miles apart.
		Neither Harappa nor Mohenjodaro show any evidence of fire altars, and consequently one can reasonably conjecture that the various rituals around the fire which are so critical in Hinduism were introduced later by the Aryans.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /southasia/History/Ancient/Indus2.html (825 words)

	Hinduism Today \| Sep 1995
		Mohenjodaro was one of two major cities of the preeminent Hindu civilization circa 5000-1900 bce known as Indus Valley.
		Mohenjodaro was a very cosmopolitan city, boasting among its commerce jewelry craftsmen of ingenious creativity and technique who worked with precious and semi-precious stones, gold, silver, copper and bronze.
		Scattered through the ruins of Mohenjodaro are a trove of small figures with intricate, fashionable hairstyles and clothes.
	www.hinduismtoday.com /archives/1995/9/1995-9-17.shtml (360 words)

	The Tribune...Sunday Reading
		Certain seals recovered from the Mohenjodaro sites show the various types of head-dresses worn during those times which also depicted their ranks at times.
		Also, the famous terracotta "mother goddess" figurine from Mohenjodaro displays a huge flared head-dress, which in some cases, provided cavities for valve lamps.
		There are also proofs of head-dresses during the late 2nd century A.D. A lovely Gandharva sculpture reflecting a western subject is the figure of Athena or Roma at Lahore, which shows a woman wearing a helmet.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99oct31/sunday/head3.htm (1456 words)

	Review: The Indus Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective.
		The differences between Harappa and Mohenjodaro in terms of the sculpture in the round is worthy of note.
		Massive platforms emerge at Mohenjodaro during the Mature Harappan as one of fundamental architectural principles on which the city was built.
		This wealth is expressed in terms of the continuity of civic planning and investment in urban facilities, in the high quality of architecture almost to the end, the extensive use of baked bricks, and the rich assemblage of artefacts.
	www.infinityfoundation.com /mandala/t_rv/t_rv_agraw_indus.htm (4486 words)

	Tantra * Kama Sutra * Tantric Sex
		The city of Mohenjodaro covered at least one square mile and is better preserved than Harappa.
		Found in Mohenjodaro, close to a fireplace in one of the rooms of a large structure, this exquisite casting depicts a dark skinned young tribal girl of "aboriginal" type.
		Whatever the sculptor intended her to portray, this small figure confirms that the Harappan people were neither shy of nakedness nor of explicit sensuality.
	www.tantra.us /own/times.htm (2115 words)

	Mecca or Mohenjodaro?: Ideas & Identities of India Pakistan
		Mohenjodaro, Harappa and Taxila were the cultural torchbearers of this Indus Valley civilization.
		However, with the decline of these civilizations and their elimination from the map of the Indus Valley, their culture died with them and with the advent of Islam in the 7th Century, the torch was passed to a new civilization to become the standard-bearers of the Indus Valley.
		The Islamic civilization and culture is superior to that of Mohenjodaro.
	www.chowk.com /show_article.cgi?aid=00000765&channel=gulberg (4374 words)

	Ancient History of India,History of Ancient India,Ancient Indian History
		The chief feature of Mohenjodaro, that amazes all curious spectators, is its superb town planning.
		The architecture of the buildings was clearly intended to be functional and minimalist, and certainly not to please the aesthete.
		Mohenjodaro was obviously a cosmopolitan city, the capital of the civilization or something, with people of different races mingling with the local populace.
	voice.indiasite.com /ancient.html (4863 words)

	THE WORLD HAILS TAMIL
		"Being Dravidians, the inhabitants of Mohenjodaro and Northern India naturally spoke a Dravidian language, yet this language war not one of the Dravidian languages now spoken in India, but probably their parent, which may be called Proto-Dravidian.
		In this connection it may be pointed out that one at least of the signs of Mohenjodaro seems to be direct ancestor of one of the letters of the Tamil alphabet
		Dravidian languages were actually flourishing in the western regions of Northern India at the period when languages of the Indo-European type where introduced by the Aryan Invasions from the North-West.
	www.geocities.com /muthiru01/07a.htm (312 words)

	The Hindu : Front Page : A voice now for the Dancing Girl of Mohenjodaro
		With the museum all set to launch an audio guide for some of its prized possessions in five languages, the good old Dancing Girl of Mohenjodaro will finally waltz into the globalised new world of the 21st Century to speak in Japanese, French, German and English apart from the desi Hindi.
		Bringing alive the history of exhibits that have acquired almost iconic stature from the seals found at the Indus Valley Civilisations sites in Harappa and Mohenjodaro to the body armour of Aurangzeb dated 1680 and even miniature paintings, the audio tour will highlight perhaps the most famous exhibits in all the galleries at the museum.
		The punch-marked coins from the 6th Century B.C. to 2nd Century B.C. as well as the Indo-Greek coins from the 1st Century at the yet-to-be-opened gallery "From Cowries to Credit Cards" will also be included in the audio tour.
	www.hindu.com /2005/10/16/stories/2005101611750100.htm (486 words)

	Colors of Bangladesh - home
		The third type of pottery is a Chinese invention that appeared when feldspathic material in a fusible state was incorporated in a stoneware composition.
		The history of Bangladesh pottery art is also very old, as old as the Mohenjodaro and Harappa civilization.
		The folk arts of these categories are being used in modern design and beautification in most of the tastefully decorated construction in Bangladesh.
	www.colorsofbangladesh.com /heritage3.php (763 words)

	Pakistan --- Sairam Tourism
		Yet the country occupies the land of the legendary Harappa Civilization, which existed in the 3rd millennium B.C. This civilization was named after one of Punjabi settlements, where the artifacts belonging to this period of time were found during archeological excavations.
		In Harappa, and in Mohenjodaro settlement on the bank of the Indus River, the archeologists unearthed ruins of walled towns, which had orderly layouts and contained palaces, public buildings, two- and three-storied burnt-brick houses, swimming pools and drainage - rare attributes for the ancient world.
		In the middle of the 2nd millennium B.C. Mohenjodaro and Harappa culture vanished after the Aryans invaded the Indus valley and mixed up with the local people.
	www.sairamtour.com /silkroad/sr_13_1.html (1246 words)

	Parryware :The Great bath of Ancient India
		The "Great Bath" the earliest public water tank in the ancient India is indeed one of the most spectacular features of Mohenjodaro.
		The remains of the twin cities of Mohenjodaro and Harappa were "discovered" in the 1920s.
		Archeologists and experts have always marveled at the system of drainage as seen in the twin cities.
	www.eparryware.com /resource/Greatbath.asp (406 words)

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		In the houses of Mohenjodaro, the fire pit is conspicuously lacking.
		The nude figures of Mohenjodaro clearly indicate that the people of the Indus valley not only practiced yoga but also worshipped images of yogis.
		The Mohenjodaro people were Dravidian; their language was a purely Dravidian language and their culture was also Dravidian.
	www.ibiblio.org /jainism/database/BOOK/jaincltr.doc (14037 words)

	Part II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		While Harappa and Mohenjodaro are about 100 hectares in size, Lakhmirwala and Rakhigarhi are about 225 hectares, Gurnikalan is about 145, Hasanpur is about 100 and Ganweriwala is about 80.
		Harappa and Mohenjodaro are certainly not the largest, though they remain better excavated because of the longer period of work on them.
		In short, there has been an attempt to freeze the archaeological picture to Harappa and Mohenjodaro in spite of new evidence that these were more peripheral than central to the greater Sarasvati civilization.
	bharatvani.org /books/civilization/partII4.htm (4174 words)

	Body set up to investigate museum theft -DAWN - National; May 13, 2002
		Sources said that the footprints were followed towards the Dadu Canal and Bundi village in the south-western area of Mohenjodaro.
		The sources in the department of archaeology called the incident a conspiracy to sabotage the recently held UNESCO-sponsored conference of experts at Mohenjodaro from April 24 to 27.
		The high-level conference was aimed at not only to protect the relics of the Indus civilization and seat of human culture at Mohenjodaro, but also there were suggestions of taking over the responsibility directly by the UNESCO to look after the site.
	www.dawn.com /2002/05/13/nat3.htm (347 words)

	LARKANA: No progress yet on decentralisation of archaeology department -DAWN - Local; November 06, 2006
		The director-general of the department of archaeology, Dr Fazal Dad Kakar, told Dawn in Mohenjodaro on Sunday that the department was still waiting for finalised lists of monuments.
		The onus now was on them as “we are ready to hand over the sites along with the staff working there to the provinces,” he said.Sources in the archaeology department said that Sindh had a total of 129 protected sites.
		The southern circle had undertaken a Rs35 million five-year plan at Mohenjodaro in the light of fresh instructions and started work, which included the underpinning of structures, measures against salt action, developing lawns and constructing visitors’ pavilion and public toilets, said Mr Qasim.
	www.dawn.com /2006/11/06/local29.htm (424 words)

	Fantastic Metropolis » Tanelorn’s Seed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		There are signs of a brisk trade with regions as far away as Egypt, and seals from Mohenjodaro have been found in the ancient city of Ur, in the heart of Mesopotamia.
		It’s possible that the strain of warfare with these Dravidian squatters was too much for them and much of their culture and civilization was lost, leaving a people now geared for war made up of elements of both cultures fused through violent conflict.
		In and of itself, that would have been pretty dramatic, a life and death struggle that wipes out one of the most advanced cultures ever to exist in an orgy of fratricidal warfare caused by the ecological collapse of their homeland.
	www.fantasticmetropolis.com /i/tanelorns-seed/full (4316 words)

	Pak to begin repair work at Mohenjodaro - Sify.com
		A meeting of the National Fund for Mohenjodaro, attended by representatives of various government departments and UNESCO, was held here yesterday, they said, adding that the walls of the site will get the first priority.
		A team of experts would be sent to handle repair works on the site, it was announced at the meeting and a six-member team from the Aachen University of Germany would also come to assist the experts.
		It was decided that the local people working at the site would be trained to look after the maintenance work of Mohenjodaro and appropriate infrastructure developed to make the site more attractive for tourists.
	sify.com /news_info/fullstory.php?id=13426805 (209 words)

	GoLocalJamaica.com - GoLocal In Schools
		This civilization was predominantly an urban concentrated in and around two principal towns, Mohenjodaro and Harappa, the ruins of which still exist.
		There were also public buildings, the most famous being the Great Bath at Mohenjodaro and the spacious granaries.
		The ornaments given to her at her wedding constituted a daughter's inheritance from her father.
	www.go-localjamaica.com /readarticle.php?ArticleID=6950 (2748 words)

	HVK Archives: Back to earth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Except that this metropolis is 4,500 years old: Mohenjodaro, the
		Mohenjodaro are crumbling, so thoroughly eaten away by salt that,
		The future of Mohenjodaro has long preoccupied conservationists.
	hvk.org /hvk/articles/0598/0097.html (755 words)

	The Hindu : dated September 10, 1953: Mohenjodaro Museum
		Rains in the Indus Valley had done "irreparable loss" to the museum at Mohenjodaro according to a report in the Karachi Morning News of the 7th.
		The museum building had collapsed reducing a four-feet long elephant tusk, dating back 5,000 years to smithereens.
		Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu
	www.hindu.com /2003/09/10/stories/2003091000330801.htm (143 words)

	Funds to study damage to Mohenjodaro - India News
		Islamabad - Pakistan has approved Rs.35 million for the first phase of a Master Plan aimed at rehabilitating Mohenjodaro, the site of the Indus Valley civilization.
		Under the plan, a study would be conducted to determine causes of deterioration of the site.
		The experts would evolve a strategy to erect 314 bending walls in different areas of Mohenjodaro.
	www.indiaenews.com /pakistan/20060514/7836.htm (326 words)

	Ear rings,Nose Rings,Fingers Ring,gold Nose Rings,gold Fingers Ring,silver Rings,nose rings,gold jewellery rings,silver ...
		Going back to ancient Indian civilization, there are no nose rings on the stone and clay sculpture of Indus, Sanchi, or at Ajanta, Ellora and Badami.
		Neither is there evidence of the use of nose rings from the plaques, seals or coins excavated from Mohenjodaro, Harappa or the Kushan and Gupta dynasties.
		Mohenjodaro excavations have brought forth copper rings with several coils, yet none of gold and very few of silver were discovered.
	www.indiaprofile.com /fashion/rings.htm (1452 words)

	Harappa
		The Indus Valley, or Harrapan, civilization was discovered in 1920-21 when engraved seals were discovered near present-day Sahiwal in Pakistani Punjab at a place called Harappa.
		excavations at Mohenjodaro in Sind discovered the buried remains of a civilization with a pictographic script.
		This civilization extended to the Yamuna along the bed of the river Ghaggar in Rajhastan, Gujrat and upto the mouths of the rivers Narbada and Tapati.
	www.saxakali.com /COLOR_ASP/harappa.htm (144 words)

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