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Mohenjo-Daro’s location at the crossroads of several major trade routes has made our city a vital manufacturing center. Our major industries are:

  • Lumber

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.

  • Fine Pottery

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 style–pink clayware, coated with red slip, and decorated with lovely designs painted in black.

  • Exquisite Jewelry

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.

  • Distinctive Metal Goods

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.

  • Peerless Textiles

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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