Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Archaeological Ruins at Moenjodaro' has mentioned 'City' in the following places:
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| Significant excavation has since been conducted at the site of the city, which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980. | WIKI |
| The city's original name is unknown. | WIKI |
| Based on his analysis of a Mohenjo-daro seal, Iravatham Mahadevan speculates that the city's ancient name could have been Kukkutarma ("the city [-rma] of the cockerel [kukkuta]"). | WIKI |
| [6] Cock-fighting may have had ritual and religious significance for the city, with domesticated chickens bred there for sacred purposes, rather than as a food source. | WIKI |
| [9] The ridge was prominent during the time of the Indus Valley Civilization, allowing the city to stand above the surrounding flood, but subsequent flooding has since buried most of the ridge in silt deposits. | WIKI |
| The ruins of the city remained undocumented for around 3,700 years until R. D. Banerji, an officer of the Archaeological Survey of India, visited the site in 1919xe2x80x9320 identifying what he thought to be a Buddhist stupa (150xe2x80x93500 CE) known to be there and finding a flint scraper which convinced him of the site's antiquity. | WIKI |
| The sheer size of the city, and its provision of public buildings and facilities, suggests a high level of social organization. | WIKI |
| [20] The city is divided into two parts, the so-called Citadel and the Lower City. | WIKI |
| The city had a central marketplace, with a large central well. | WIKI |
| Excavation of the city revealed very tall wells (left), which it seems were continually built up as flooding and rebuilding raised the elevation of street level. | WIKI |
| It is obvious from the identical city layouts of all Indus sites that there was some kind of political or administrative centrality, but the extent and functioning of an administrative center remains unclear. | WIKI |
| [24] Because the large number of wells, it is believed that the inhabitants relied solely on annual rainfall, as well as the Indus River's course remaining close to the site, alongside the wells providing water for long periods of time in the case of the city coming under siege. | WIKI |
| The city also had large platforms perhaps intended as defense against flooding. | WIKI |
| [20] According to a theory first advanced by Wheeler, the city could have been flooded and silted over, perhaps six times, and later rebuilt in the same location. | WIKI |
| [29] For some archaeologists, it was believed that a final flood that helped engulf the city in a sea of mud brought about the abandonment of the site. | WIKI |
| [30] Instead of a mud flood wiping part of the city out in one fell swoop, Possehl coined the possibility of constant mini-floods throughout the year, paired with the land being worn out by crops, pastures, and resources for bricks and pottery spelled the downfall of the site. | WIKI |
| There even seems to be an entire section of the city dedicated to shell-working, located in the northeastern part of the site. | WIKI |
| The archaeological ruins are located on the right bank of the Indus River, 510 km north-east from Karachi, and 28 km from Larkana city, Larkana District in Pakistanxe2x80x99s Sindh Province. | UNESCO |
| The well planned city mostly built with baked bricks and having public baths; a college of priests; an elaborate drainage system; wells, soak pits for disposal of sewage, and a large granary, bears testimony that it was a metropolis of great importance, enjoying a well organized civic, economic, social and cultural system. | UNESCO |
| Moenjodaro comprises two sectors: a citadel area in the west where the Buddhist stupa was constructed with unbaked brick over the ruins of Moenjodaro in the 2nd century AD, and to the east, the lower city ruins spread out along the banks of the Indus. | UNESCO |
| Here buildings are laid out along streets intersecting each other at right angles, in a highly orderly form of city planning that also incorporated systems of sanitation and drainage. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (ii): The Archaeological Ruins at Moenjodaro comprise the most ancient planned city on the Indian subcontinent, and exerted great influence on the subsequent urbanization of human settlement in the Indian peninsular. | UNESCO |