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MOHENJODARO CIVILIZATION

THE MOST DEVELOPED CITY OF INDUS VALLEY


CIVILIZATION
INTRODUCTION:
• MOHENJODARO was one of
the major settlement of Indus
Valley Civilization.
• The site of Mohenjo-Daro in
Larkana district, Sindh,
Pakistan.
• The site covers an area of over
250 acres.
• The Indus river is currently
situated to the east of the site.
• This mysterious culture
emerged nearly 4500 years
ago and thrived for a thousand
years.
• The Mohenjo-Daro is divided into
two sections:
1. CITADEL: Smaller in area but
highly developed
2. LOWER TOWN: Large in area but
less developed than citadel.

• The citadel owes its height to the


fact that buildings were
constructed on mud brick
platform.
CITADEL:
• In Mohenjo-Daro, the western end of the city is an area known as
the Citadel.
• This area of the city was built on top of a mound of bricks almost 12
m high.
• Several large buildings and structures on the Citadel mound suggest
that this area may have been used for :
a.) public gatherings
b.) religious activities
c.) important administrative activities

• Archaeologists had also find some small buildings but they were not
common
LOWER TOWN
• The "Lower Town" is made up of numerous lower mounds that lie
to the east and may represent multiple walled neighbourhoods.

• Termed 'lower town' by the archaeologists that excavated it, this


envelops the broad scope of where most of Mohenjo-Daro's citizens
resided.

• The Lower Town is organized on a grid system with four avenues


running from north to south and four running from east to west.

• The avenues are several meters wide and have drains running down
the middle or side of the road.
• The avenues divide the Lower Town
into many blocks. Alleyways and lanes
further divided these blocks.
• Features of Houses in Lower Town
Most of the homes are made of baked
bricks in a standard size of 28 x 14 x 7
centimetres.
• Archaeological evidence, such as the
remains of stairways, seems to suggest
that many of the buildings had two
storeys.
• People had access to clean water
either from wells within their homes or
from public wells in the streets.
• Every house had its own bathroom
paved with bricks, with drains
connected through the wall to the
street drains.
• Some houses have remains of
staircases to reach a second storey or
the roof.
• Over 700 public and private wells have
been found at Mohenjo-Daro

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