MohenjoDaro, city of the Indus Valley（摩亨佐达罗,印度河流域的城市）.pdf

Mohenjo-Daro, city of the Indus Valley Michael Jansen The Harappan civilization, the world’s fourth great civilization after those of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and China flourished in the valley of the Indus three thousand years ago. As yet little is known about it, but one enormous town - Mohenjo-Daro - has survived. This has been only partially excavated and has yielded just a few scraps of information which have provided the basis for some fanciful theories. The author of this article had developed an interesting new approach. Combining a re-examination of the documentation that has accumulated over the past 50 years with an investigation of the actual remains, he has obtained some exciting results which shed new light on the overall planning, architecture, and development of the town over the centuries, thus providing a fresh understanding of the Harappan civilization itself. The Harappan civilization (from Asia: from 2500 BC Mesopotamian Gulf and Mesopotamia, often together Harappa, the first city discovered) texts refer to the importance of trade with the stone weights which were a flourished as an urban society in the with eastern regions such as Dilmun feature of the Indus Valley system of Indus Valley between around 2400 and (the Persian Gulf) and Meluhha measurement, were used in trade. 1800 BC, and represents the culmina-