Indus Valley Civilization: Pakistan

[Omar1984]

Indus Valley Civilization (2600-1900BCE) The ancient civilization of Pakistan and also some parts of India and Afghanistan.

Excavated ruins of Mohenjo-daro, Pakistan.

So-called "Priest King" statue, Mohenjo-daro, late Mature Harappan period, National Museum, Karachi, Pakistan


The "dancing girl of Mohenjo Daro."

Mohenjo-daro, 25 km southwest of Larkana,Pakistan, was centre of the Indus Valley Civilization 2600 BC-1900 BC

A clay toy from Mohenjo-daro

Remains from the final phase of the Harappa occupation: A large well and bathing platforms

 

[Omar1984]

Early farming village in Mehrgarh, c. 7000 BC, with houses built with mud bricks. (Musée Guimet, Paris).


A relief map of Pakistan showing Mehrgarh.

A figurine from Mehrgarh, c. 3000 BCE. (Musée Guimet, Paris)

 

[Omar1984]

The Indus Valley civilization was entirely unknown until 1921, when excavations in what would become Pakistan revealed the cities of Harappa and Mohenjo Daro (shown here).

This mysterious culture emerged nearly 4,500 years ago and thrived for a thousand years, profiting from the highly fertile lands of the Indus River floodplain and trade with the civilizations of nearby Mesopotamia.

 

[PakForce Unlimited]

Hi

A good thread!Nice initiative! We need a thread like this to promote Pakistans heritage so people can learn something else than what is going on in FATA.

Here are two sites with a great amount of photograps and information.

Mohenjo-daro the Ancient Indus Valley City in Photographs

Indus Valley Civilization

 

[Omar1984]

Harappan seal

Harappa in Pakistan

Harappa Seals


Harappa Jewelry

Bangle from Harappa. Photo taken from a Museum in Karachi

Public well in Harappa

 

[PakForce Unlimited]

I especially like this photograph. It shows a quite well overview of the ancient "city".

http://imageshack.us​

 

[Omar1984]

The Indus River Valley civilization, which built the city of Mohenjo Daro (shown here), arose in what is now Pakistan about 4,500 years ago. Mohenjo Daro and its sister city, Harappa, each had some 40,000 residents at their peak in 2500 B.C.

Aerial view of the great bath at Mohenjo-Daro.

Mohenjo-Daro

Well at Mohenjo-Daro

The Great Bath at Mohenjo-Daro


Seal from Mohenjo-Daro

Mohenjo-daro (Urdu: موئن جودڑو, Sindhi: موئن جو دڙو, English: Mound of the dead) was a city of the Indus Valley Civilization built around 2600 BC and is located in the Sindh Province of Pakistan. This ancient five thousand year old city is the largest of Indus Valley and is widely recognized as one of the most important early cities of South Asia and the Indus Valley Civilization. Mohenjo Daro was one of the world’s first cities and contemporaneous with ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations. It is sometimes referred to as "An Ancient Indus Valley Metropolis".

 

[Omar1984]

The Great Bath at Mohenjo-Daro


Among the remains of the Mohenjo-Daro archaeological site in present-day Pakistan were terra-cotta, alabaster, and marble figures. This fragment shows a bearded male in ornamental dress dating from 3000 bc.

About five thousand years ago when Egyptians and Sumerians were building magnificent tombs and temples, but living in mud huts, a highly developed urban civilisation flourished in the Indus Valley, extensive remains of which have been found at various sites in Pakistan. Of these ancient sites two of the most well known are Harappa in Punjab and Mohenjo-Daro in Sind.
Copper and Bronze objects were first cast and then hammered to required shape. Stone axes and flake-knives have also been found in several houses of Mohenjo-Daro proving that the arts of the Stone Age had not been lost.

Mohenjo-Daro ornaments

 

[Omar1984]

Terra cotta figurines of humans and animals from excavation at Harappa

The Granary at Harappa

Excavated by the Harappa Archaeological Research Project in 1993, this large corbelled drain was built in the middle of an abandoned gateway at Harappa to dispose of rainwater and sewage.

An artist's reconstruction of the gateway and drain at Harappa.

 

[Omar1984]

Harappan Seals


Harappa (Punjab, Pakistan)

The recent excavations at Harappa were begun in 1986 by the American team of the Harappa Archaeological Research Project jointly with the Department of Archaeology and Museums of Pakistan. New discoveries and reevaluations of previously excavated areas have contributed greatly to our understanding of this site, which was the type-site of the Harappan (or Indus) Civilization.
The site was inhabited continuously from at least 3300 B.C. until several hundred years after the decline of the Indus Civilization (the "Cemetery H" Culture at Harappa), which represents one of the longest periods of occupation at any Indus site. Recent excavations have focused on the development of the Indus script and the early and late phases of the Indus Civilization at Harappa. (For more details, see the link for "Harappa.com".)

 

[U-571]

even today moen jo daro is the most advanced city of pakistan , its no joke!!

 

[ThunderCat]

Very good. I will add more once I have 15+ posts in my record. I can also add article on the IVC and other time eras of pre-Islamic Pakistan if you guys want.


Pakistan Zindabad

 

[A.R.]

Very good. I will add more once I have 15+ posts in my record. I can also add article on the IVC and other time eras of pre-Islamic Pakistan if you guys want.


Pakistan Zindabad

Indus vally civillizations can not be counted as the history of pakistani civilians.. this civillizations is completly swaped by late civillizations...

there are very very less nations in the world which are currently practicing there ancient civillizations for ex: china, India, african civillizations

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Indus vally civillizations can not be counted as the history of pakistani civilians.. this civillizations is completly swaped by late civillizations...

there are very very less nations in the world which are currently practicing there ancient civillizations for ex: china, India, african civillizations

So tht means we should wear ancient clothes and live in mud huts?

Even then its ours and we dont give a shyt about others ranting and claiming Indus civilisation as there own.
Thanks

 

[A.R.]

So tht means we should wear ancient clothes and live in mud huts?

Even then its ours and we dont give a shyt about others ranting and claiming Indus civilisation as there own.
Thanks

exactly not.. but for your kind information every civilization has its own sign.. i m sure you dont know about it..

more over you are the follower of islamic civilization

friend civilization do develop with time...

and ours is Vedic civilization.. we dont claim extinct civilizations