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Mohenjo-daro (/ m oʊ ˌ h ɛ n dʒ oʊ ˈ d ɑː r oʊ /; Sindhi: موهن جو دڙو , lit. ' Mound of the Dead Men ' ; Urdu : موئن جو دڑو [muˑənⁱ dʑoˑ d̪əɽoˑ] ) is an archaeological site in Larkana District , Sindh , Pakistan .
The finds from Mohenjo-daro were first sent to the Lahore Museum, but later transferred to New Delhi, the new capital of British India, and the headquarters of the ASI, with a view to displaying them in the "Central Imperial Museum" that was planned.
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Sindh was the site of one of the Cradle of civilizations, the Bronze Age Indus Valley civilisation that flourished from about 3000 B.C. and declined rapidly 1,000 years later, following the Indo-Aryan migrations that overran the region in waves between 1500 and 500 B.C. [1] The migrating Indo-Aryan tribes gave rise to the Iron Age vedic ...
More than 90% of the inscribed objects and seals that were discovered were found at ancient urban centres along the Indus river in Pakistan, mainly in Harappa and Mohenjo-daro. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] More than 50 IVC burial sites have been found, including at Rakhigarhi (first site with genetic testing ), Mohenjo-Daro , Harappa , Farmana , Kalibangan ...
Mohenjo-daro and the Indus civilization: Being an official account of archæological excavations at Mohenjo-daro carried out by the government of India between the years 1922 and 1927 . London, 1931. (Volume I: Text, Chapters I—XIX and Plates I—XIV; Volume II: Text, Chapters XX — XXXII, Appendices and Index; Volume III: Plates XV—CLXIV)
The Great Bath of Mohenjo-Daro is called the "earliest public water tank of the ancient world". [5] It measures approximately 12 metres (40 ft) by 7 metres (23 ft), with a maximum depth of 2.4 metres (8 ft). [6] Two wide staircases, one from the north and one from the south, served as the entry to the structure. [7]
Mohenjo Daro is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language period action-adventure film [4] written and directed by Ashutosh Gowariker. [5] [6] [7] It was produced by Siddharth Roy Kapur for UTV Motion Pictures and The Walt Disney Company India and Sunita Gowariker for Ashutosh Gowariker Productions (AGPPL), [8] and stars Hrithik Roshan and Pooja Hegde.