-Name means "mound of the dead"
-Located in modern day Pakistan
-A large, carefully planed and organized city
-Planned layout, streets were in a grid, elaborate drainage system
-Flourished in basins of the Indus River from 2600 b.c. to 1900 b.c.
-Known as the faceless city because it lacks temples, palaces, and monuments

Mohenjo-Daro

Harappa

Indus River Valley Cities

- Thrived on the banks of the Ravi River from 2600 b.c. to 1900 b.c.
-Also had a grid system of streets and sewage
-Developed weights and measures and a writing system
-City built of fire-baked bricks