Mohenjo-Daros
location at the crossroads of several major trade routes has made
our city a vital manufacturing center. Our major industries are:
Rosewood from
nearby forests as well as deodar
from the mountainous regions to the northeast are shipped along
water routes to customers throughout the Indus Valley as well
as in Sumer,
Crete, Ebla
and Mari, Elam,
and Egypt.
Pottery is
big business here, with busy ceramics factories turning out vast
quantities of wheel-turned, kiln-fired objects for every use.
Throughout the world, customers clamor for bowls, plates, and
other vessels in the Mohenjo-Daro stylepink clayware, coated
with red slip,
and decorated with lovely designs painted in black.
Our skilled
artisans create a wide variety of beautiful necklaces, bracelets,
rings, belts, and fillets,
many adorned with our internationally famous handcrafted beads.
For your pleasure, we offer
- gold, silver,
copper, and tin from Elam
- lapis
lazuli from the mountains of the north
- carnelian
and agate from the southeast
- conch
and clam shells from the shores of the Great
Sea
- jade from
the northeast hinterlands
Also available:
clay, bone, and ivory.
Expert metalworkers
use copper and bronze (made by melting together imported copper
and tin) to fashion arrowheads, knives, swords, axes, and fishhooks
as well as mirrors, pots, pans, and candleholders.
Mohenjo-Daro
ranks second to none in the quality of our woven
cotton, an industry founded by our ancestors about
500 years ago.
For details
of our farm products, see our Agriculture
section.
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