UNESCO Restarts Excavation in Mohenjodaro After 18 Years
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
Excavation activities have recommenced at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Mohenjo Daro, under the guidance of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
This marks the first excavation effort in 18 years and is focused on the western section of the ancient ruins. The renewed work aims to uncover and preserve more of the historic legacy of one of the most significant urban settlements of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization.
The last major excavation at Mohenjo-Daro revealed several rare and historically important artifacts. Before that, substantial archaeological work had been undertaken in the mid-1960s by American archaeologist George F. Dales.
In a notable discovery in 2023, a team of experts unearthed a pot containing copper coins—considered the most significant archaeological find at the site in nearly a century. According to sources, the discovery occurred when laborers working on a damaged wall stumbled upon the ancient jar.
Dr. Syed Shakir Shah, Director of Archaeology at Mohenjo-Daro, confirmed the find, noting that the team, including conservator Ghulam Shabir Joyo, was engaged in preservation work at the time. The jar, which weighed approximately 5.5 kilograms, was subsequently transferred to a soil testing lab for analysis.
Located near Larkana in Sindh, Mohenjo-Daro dates back to the 26th century BCE and was once one of the largest cities of the Indus Valley Civilization. The site continues to attract both scholars and tourists with its remarkable history and ancient urban planning.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
