{"id":17694,"date":"2023-12-03T11:45:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T06:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17694"},"modified":"2025-04-05T06:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T00:30:13","slug":"mohenjodaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mohenjodaro\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Mohenjo Daro"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Mohenjo Daro<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Mohenjo Daro, or &#8220;Mound of the Dead&#8221; is an\u00a0ancient Indus Valley Civilization city that\u00a0flourished between 2600 and 1900 BCE.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It lies\u00a0in Pakistan&#8217;s Sindh province, on the\u00a0bank of the Indus River.<\/li>\n<li>It was\u00a0discovered in 1922\u00a0by R. D. Banerji, an\u00a0officer of the Archaeological Survey of India.<\/li>\n<li>At about 3 mi (5 km) in circuit, it was the\u00a0largest city of the Indus civilization, and it probably served as the\u00a0capital of an extensive state.<\/li>\n<li>It was built around the\u00a0same time as the Great Pyramids of Egypt.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The ruins were\u00a0designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site\u00a0in 1980.<\/li>\n<li>Laid out in a\u00a0rectilinear grid and built out of baked bricks, the city featured a complex water management system, complete with a\u00a0sophisticated drainage and\u00a0covered sewer system, and\u00a0baths in nearly\u00a0every house.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The city included a\u00a0900-square-foot Great Bath and about\u00a0700 wells. The\u00a0Great Bath is a rectangular public pool situated\u00a0in the citadel. These were part of a water system that enabled homes to have their own baths and toilets.<\/li>\n<li>Mohenjo-Daro, like its contemporaries (Kalibangan and Harappa), was also\u00a0divided into two parts: the citadel and the lower town.<\/li>\n<li>Citadel:\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0western mound, or Citadel was\u00a0built on a raised platform of mud brick and consisted of all the\u00a0important administrative structures like The Great Bath,\u00a0granaries, and the\u00a0College of Priests.<\/li>\n<li>It was\u00a0fortified by a thick mud-brick retaining wall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Lower Town:\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0eastern or\u00a0low-lying part of the town was\u00a0also fortified\u00a0and was meant for the\u00a0settlement of commoners.<\/li>\n<li>Numerous\u00a0streets and small alleys ran across this part of the city.<\/li>\n<li>Within this section,\u00a0many sub-parts\u00a0were built according to the guild systems.<\/li>\n<li>As people settled here, a\u00a0large number of artifacts and information\u00a0regarding the burial practices were found in this area.<\/li>\n<li>Multi-storey buildings:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The people of Mohenjo-Daro\u00a0lived in houses\u00a0that had similar features throughout the town.<\/li>\n<li>They consisted of a\u00a0central courtyard surrounded by rooms.<\/li>\n<li>Almost\u00a0every household had individual toilets and bathrooms.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0doors and windows always\u00a0opened in the alleys.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0concentration of wealth in the hands of a few\u00a0can be seen through the dimensions of their houses. For instance, the\u00a0commoners lived in single-storey houses\u00a0while the\u00a0rich lived in double or\u00a0sometimes\u00a0treble-storey houses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Indus Valley Civilization?<\/h3>\n<p>It was the first urban civilisation in South Asia, contemporaneous with the civilisations of Mesopotamia and Egypt. It forms a part of the proto-history of India and belongs to the Bronze Age. While it is classified as a civilisation that is older than Chalcolithic civilisations, in many ways, it was far more developed than settlements in the Chalcolithic Age. Also, it has come to be called the \u2018Harappan Civilization\u2019 after the name of its first discovered site.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/viral\/2000-year-old-copper-coins-discovered-at-ancient-site-of-mohenjo-daro-8686911.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>2000-year-old Copper Coins Discovered At Ancient Site Of Mohenjo Daro<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohenjo Daro, or &#8220;Mound of the Dead&#8221; is an ancient Indus Valley Civilization city that flourished between 2600 and 1900 BCE. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}