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

The archaeological sites of Harappa in the north and Mohenjo-Daro in the south have received the most study of all the Indus valley cities and remain the best known.

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

Dubbed the Great Bath because of its considerable size and technological sophistication, the solid brick pool occupied a focal place in the now deserted city of Mohenjo-Daro in what has become modern Pakistan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 29, 2016

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