The Indus Civilization c5.62

c5.62

At several street corners at Mohenjo-daro, buildings have been found whose large rooms have stoutly paved floors with shallow cup-like depressions in them of wedge-shaped bricks. These, too, would probably have been taken for storehouses, were it not that their prominent positions make it much more likely that they were used as restaurants, and that the depressions in the floors held large pottery jars of liquid. This theory seems to be substantiated by one particular building where a well-made flight of steps leads down from it into the street; here a smaller room adjoining, and communicating with, a large public one was fitted up as a kitchen. In these restaurants the inhabitants of the city probably met to combine gossip with eating and drinking, and the latest peccadilloes of the city fathers were doubtless retailed with gusto over rich food and the stronger kinds of drink.