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Archaeological Ruins at Moenjodaro
| Site number: | 138 |
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| Type of site: | Cultural | |
| Date: | 3000BC | |
| Date of Inscription: | 1980 | |
| Location: | Asia, Pakistan, Sind | |
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| Description: | The massive city of Moenjodaro was entirely constructed of unbaked brick in the 3rd millennium B.C., the ruins of which now lie in the Indus valley. Providing indication of an early system of town planning is the acropolis, placed on elevated embankments, the ramparts, as well as the lower town, which is arranged in line with strict rules. --WHMNet paraphrase from the description at WHC Site, where additional information is available. For 360 degree imaging of this site, click here. | |
| 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". --Wikipedia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. For 360 degree imaging of this site, click here. | ||
| Source: | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/138 | |
| Source2: | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/138/video | |
| Reference: | 1. UNESCO World Heritage Center, Site Page. | |