It's not often that a single artifact really wows an archaeologist. Archaeologists are stodgy people, who keep our thrills for new findings in DNA analysis and possible dietary inputs in societies and uncracked ancient languages (ooh! Let me tell you all about Linear A!). But there are exceptions, and the Dancing Girl of Mohenjo Daro is one of them.
Dancing Girl of Mohenjo Daro
Photo Credit: Gregory L. Possehl ©2002
Mohenjo Daro was a large, important city of the Indus (also called Harappan) civilization, located in the Sindh province of Pakistan on the Indus River floodplain. Occupied between about 3500 and 1300 BC, Mohenjo Daro is one of the best-preserved cities of Harappa, and one of the best known.
The dancing girl in the photo provided by Gregory Possehl is a bronze statuette, made using the lost wax method about 2500 BC. It was rediscovered in 1926, during excavations at a house at Mohenjo-Daro. Excavators Mortimer Wheeler and John Marshall both developed crushes on this lovely 4500 hundred year old dame, and I suspect you will understand how that might happen when you read all about her and the civilization she represents.
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