Mohenjo-Daro

Archeological site on the Indus River in
modern Pakistan, about two hundred
miles north of Karachi. Mohenjo-Daro is
one of the cities of the Indus Valley civilization, a highly developed urban culture that flourished in the Indus Valley
region between the fourth and third millennia B.C.E. Harappa and MohenjoDaro have been the most extensively
excavated of these cities, although
archeological work is proceeding at others. Similarities at these different sites
reveal insights into this civilization’s
material culture. One of the features at
Mohenjo-Daro is the “Great Bath,” a
large water-tank built of brick and
sealed with pitch. Scholars speculate
that it was connected with ritual purity.
See also bath, Mohenjo-Daro.