Great Bath at Mohenjo-Daro
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Great Bath at Mohenjo-Daro

The most famous building found at Mohenjo-Daro is a great bath.
It is a 6x12 meter specimen of beautiful brick work.
The water for the bath was provided from a well in an adjacent room.
The floor was made up of bricks.
Floor and outer walls were bituminized so that there is no leakage of water.
There are open porch’s on four sides of the bath.
There is use of Burnt bricks.
Mortar and Gypsum in the Great bath but NO use of stone is there.
The largest building found at Mohenjo-Daro is a granary.
Then, there was also a pillared hall for social gatherings.
The other notable findings at Mohenjo-Daro are instruments of cotton weaving, Bronze figurine of dancing girl, evidence of violence and killing, seal of the mother goddess, the figurine of beared man, the seal of Proto Shiva, a seal in which a man is sacrificing a woman with his knife.

There is an impressive building which was used as a public bath. The overall dimension of the Bath is 180 feet by 108 feet.
The bathing pool is 39 feet by 23 feet with 8 feet depth.
There is a device to fill and empty the water of the bathing pool.
There are galleries and rooms on all sides of the bathing pool.
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