Fisher woman of my Mohenjo

“Not often has it been to archaeologists, as it was given to
Schliemann at Tiryns and Mycenae, or to Stein in the deserts
of Turkestan, to light upon the remains of a long-forgotten
civilisation. It looks, however, at this moment, as if we were
on the threshold of such a discovery in the plains of the
Indus.”
It is with these words that Sir John Marshall, Director
General of the Archaeological Survey of India, announced the
discovery of the Indus Civilisation at the sites of Harappa and
Mohenjo-daro (present day Pakistan) in the pages of the
Illustrated London News on 20th September 1924.
The Indus Civilisation developed on the fertile plains of the
Indus River in Pakistan and the adjacent areas of northwestern
India in ca. 2600-1900 BC (Fig. 1). The Indus
Civilisation was one of the earliest urban societies: Indus cities
were meticulously planned and had complex water supply
networks and advanced sanitation systems (Fig. 2). Massive
walls and imposing gateways made of bricks or stone were
built around cities. Clusters of houses or public buildings
were built close together to form larger blocks separated from
each other by wide streets. Houses were arranged around an
inner courtyard and opened on narrow lanes, and many of
them had bathing areas and latrines.
Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
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