The Indus Civilization c4.8

c4.8

Mohenjo-daro seems to have been a smaller city than Harappa, but even so, it occupies a square mile of ground. It may have been larger than appears, for its outskirts are buried beneath the silt deposited by the River Indus. As this city is by far the better preserved of the two, it was here that the material in this book was largely gathered, but it must be borne in mind that, save for some objects of obviously later date, the finds at Harappa are practically identical with those at Mohenjo-daro. Their pottery, for example, is the same in most of the shapes and the designs painted upon it; the seal-amulets incised with animals and signs might have come from either site, and though there is a feeling that Harappa is slightly older than Mohenjo-daro, there is little definite evidence to support it. The script seems to have remained the same throughout the period of occupation of either city; it retained its pictographic character right up to the time of their abandonment.