Amazing India

  Mohenjo-daro meaning mound of a dead man. In present-day Mohenja-daro lies in the bank of river Ravi in the province of Sindh, Pakistan.  It was built around 2500 BCE.  It was one of the largest settlements of the Indus Valley Civilization and one of the world's earliest major cities. The word Mohenjo-daro had been because the city of Harappa and important Indus Valley sites was found on a series of mounds over 250 acres of land. At its height, the Indus civilization spanned much of what is now Pakistan and north India, extending westward to the Iranian border, South to Gujrat in India, and northward to an outpost in Bactria. Mohenjo-daro was the most advanced city of its time, with remarkably sophisticated civil engineering and urban planning. Mohenja-daro had a planned layout with a rectilinear building arranged on a grid plan. Most were built of fire and mortared brick. Some incorporated sun-dried mud-brick and wooden superstructures. The city was divided into t...

A flourishing civilization emerged on the banks of the river Indus in the second half of the third millennium BCE and spread across large part of North western and western India. That is what we know as Harapan civilization or Indus valley civilization.  A marked feature of this ancient civilizations was the vivid imagination and artistic sensibilities axuded by the numerous sculpture, seals, potteries, Jewelleries found at the excavation sites.  Harappan and Mohenjodaro- the two major sites of this civilization are among the earliest and finest examples of urban civic planning.          The planned network of roads, houses and drainage system indicate the planning and              engineering skills that developed during those times.  T his is situated in the present Pakistan in the bank of river Ravi. Two rows of six granaries with big platform, stone symbol of lingam and yoni , mother goddess figure, wheat an...