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I'm confused by the dating in the article. It refers to an ancient Buddhist stupa towering over the streets, but later says the city was abandoned by 1700 BCE.
by shever73 4y ago
I'm confused by the dating in the article. It refers to an ancient Buddhist stupa towering over the streets, but later says the city was abandoned by 1700 BCE. This would be over 1,000 years before the founding of Buddhism. Or am I missing something?
- rushikesh98 4y ago> 1922 that R D Banerji, an ASI officer, believed he saw a buried stupa, a mound-like structure where Buddhists typically meditate. This led to large-scale excavations –... The officer initially believed it to be a Buddhist stupa. Excavation revealed the true historicity. A platform is easy to be mistaken with a stupa, without more context.
- quadrifoliate 4y agoApparently there is a later built Buddhist stupa on the same site [1]. Props to 'ojbyrne for pointing this out to me in a discussion. ---------------------------------------- [1] https://www.harappa.com/blog/buddhist-stupa-mohenjo-daro https://www.harappa.com/blog/buddhist-stupa-mohenjo-daro