All About: The Incredible Indus Valley by P S Quick

Author:P S Quick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horrible histories, Harappa, Harappan, Sindhu, Sarasvati, Pakistan, Himalayas, Mythology, Gods, history, learn, facts, fun, quiz, religion, KS1, KS2, education
ISBN: 9781785381317
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2015
Published: 2015-03-05T00:00:00+00:00

Great Bath of Mohenjo-daro

It is thought this great bath may have been a temple or used for public ceremonies as water was very important to the people who lived in the Indus Valley. It has also been suggested that perhaps people were baptised here but no one knows anything for sure.

Only about ten per cent of the city has been excavated but today there are real concerns for its future; the main one being that this city may in the next twenty or thirty years be lost forever.

The walls are crumbling in the lower part of the town where most people originally lived and worked. This is because with modern farming methods the salt content of the ground water is eating away the bricks from the bottom of the walls. The problem has only occurred in modern times because until recently these bricks have survived for thousands of years. However the problem is made worse by the humidity and rainfall in the area.

In the higher parts of the town some walls have collapsed completely especially around the areas of the large public bath.

Perhaps the fact that so much of the town remains buried will help it to remain protected. Some people believe that the whole site should be buried again to stop any further damage. Fewer people now come to visit the site from abroad; probably due to security problems.

Lothal

Lothal is located near to the Gulf of Khambat in the western Indian state of Gujarat. It was on the banks of the Sabarmati River which has since dried up. It was an important port during the times of the Indus Valley Civilization but was not discovered until 1954.

It has been extensively researched and is an important archaeological site due to its layout and the enormous dockyard that allowed the Indus people to trade with other civilizations of the time. The dock is the earliest known in the world and connected Lothal with the Sabarmati River. Bricks that had been fired in kilns to harden them were used to build the dock which was two hundred and fourteen metres long, thirty six metres wide and thirteen metres deep. Near the dock were warehouses to store the goods that were being transported.

Lothal was a flourishing and prosperous city with excellent town planning and architecture like so many other Indus Valley cities. The whole city had paved roads and a well laid out drainage system with a bath for every house. It was an important business centre that traded with Egypt, Mesopotamia and Persia.

There is an evidence of a bead factory in the city and pottery was also made here. Mirrors made from bronze and copper have been found here as well as toy bullock carts, jewellery, painted pottery and objects made from, shells, bone and stone.

Dholavira

Dholavira is one of the five largest Indus Valley sites and is located on the Khadir Beyt Island in the Kutch district of Gujarat. The site was discovered in 1967 by J P Joshi and excavation only started in 1990.

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