Mohenjo-Daro

American  

[moh-hen-joh-dahr-oh] / moʊˈhɛn dʒoʊˈdɑr oʊ /

noun

1. an archaeological site in Pakistan, near the Indus River: six successive ancient cities were built here.

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Mohenjo-Daro British  

/ məˈhɛndʒəʊˈdɑːrəʊ /

noun

1. an excavated city in SE Pakistan, southwest of Sukkur near the River Indus: flourished during the third millennium _bc

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Example Sentences

At Mohenjo-Daro and Kalibangan, the houses typically consisted of four to six rooms built around a central courtyard and were equipped with wells to provide running water to a bathroom.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

At Mohenjo-Daro, the tank of the bath was forty feet long and twenty- three feet wide and entered by staircases on either side.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Archaeologists have uncovered a large hall supported by pilasters composed of mud-brick at Mohenjo-Daro, as well as a multistory residence built around an open courtyard.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Equipped with those tools, the Indus River valley produced two of the ancient world’s most technologically advanced cities, Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

She remembered the digs around Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, in the Indus Valley, and the careful, patient native laborers—the painstaking foremen, the pickmen and spademen, the long files of basketmen carrying away the earth.

From Omnilingual by Freas, Kelly