This is the documentary broadcast by Live History India (LHI) on the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Mohenjo-daro This time it is not a post but a virtual tour of Mohen jo Daro in which I will be telling in 35 minutes the story of a city that lived for seven hundred years,...
The nation of Pakistan is a modern creation, but people have been building great cities in the area for some 5,000 years. Five millennia ago, theIndus Valley Civilizationcreated great urban centers at Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, both of which are now in Pakistan. The Indus Valley people mixed...
The nation of Pakistan is a modern creation, but people have been building great cities in the area for some 5,000 years. Five millennia ago, theIndus Valley Civilizationcreated great urban centers at Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, both of which are now in Pakistan. The Indus Valley people mixed...
The mostcommon languagesspoken in Pakistan are Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashto, and Balochi. Between 95-98% of all Pakistanis are Muslim, which is also the state religion. The reason for this is deeply tied to the country’s history, which we will get to shortly. Pakistan’s government is...
The area of present-day Sindh province was the centre of the ancientIndus valley civilization, as represented by the sites ofMohenjo-daro, Amre, andKot Diji. This early civilization existed from about 2300 to 1750bce. There is then a gap of more than a millennium before the historical recor...
The civilization was first identified in 1921 atHarappain the Punjab region and then in 1922 atMohenjo-daro(Mohenjodaro), near theIndus Riverin the Sindh (Sind) region. Both sites are in present-dayPakistan, inPunjabandSindhprovinces, respectively. The ruins of Mohenjo-daro were designated a ...
The area of present-day Sindh province was the centre of the ancient Indus valley civilization, as represented by the sites of Mohenjo-daro, Amre, and Kot Diji. This early civilization existed from about 2300 to 1750 bce. There is then a gap of more than a millennium before the historica...
especially to the larger cities. In religion, the province is almost entirely Muslim, with a small Christian minority.Punjabiis the mother tongue of the great majority of the population. The main written language isUrdu, followed byEnglish. The major ethnic groups are theJat,Rajput, Arain, Guj...