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Mohenjo-daro
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Mohenjo-daro

ਮੋਹਿੰਜੋਦੜੋموئن جو دڑو

The largest of the Indus cities, on the Indus in Sindh, with the Great Bath, a citadel mound and a grid of brick streets and covered drains.

Mohenjo-daro, Larkana, Sindh, Pakistan

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How the city was laid out

A plan
CITADEL MOUNDraised on a brick platform, above the floodsGreat Bath12 × 7 m, 2.4 m deep,sealed with bitumenGreat Hallonce called"the granary"Buddhist stupa,c. 2nd century CE:2,000 years laterPillared hallLOWER TOWN"First Street", 10 m widecovered brick drains under the streetswells in the housestowards the IndusNSchematic, not to scale. The city covered about 250 hectares and may have held 40,000 people, c. 2500 BCE.

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Indus weights

A standard from the Indus to the Ghaggar
10.9 g21.7 g43.4 g86.8 g1613.7 g3227.4 g6454.8 g160137 g200171 g320274 g640548 g1,6001,370 gDOUBLING: 1 · 2 · 4 · 8 · 16 · 32 · 64THEN DECIMAL STEPS

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Cubes drawn to scale by weight. The smallest weighs about 0.86 g; the commonest, the "16", about 13.7 g; the largest about 100 times that. The same weights, mostly cut from chert, were used from the Indus delta to the Ghaggar, for centuries.

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