Title

Ground plan of one of the houses excavated at Brahmunabad, 1857. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Ground plan of one of the houses excavated at Brahmunabad, 1857. Ancient city in what is now Pakistan, excavated at his own expense by Mr. A. F. Bellasis, of the Bombay Civil Service: '...a house with a variety of rooms began fast to take shape, and disclose its proportions. We had not dug two feet before we came to quantities of bones, and...skeletons...so numerous that it was hardly possible to dig a powra (a large hoe) full of earth without bringing up particles of bones. As far as I could judge, many were undeniably human bones, and others those of cattle and horses. The human bones were chiefly found in doorways, as if the people had been attempting to escape, and others in the corners of the rooms. Many of the skeletons were in a sufficiently perfect state to show the position the body had assumed: some were upright, some recumbent, with their faces down, and some crouched in a sitting posture'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM23A76_270

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17,0Mb (320,7Kb) / 8,3in x 7,9in / 2494 x 2384 (300dpi)

Keywords

building buildings house houses British color archaeology excavation remains location earthquake century archaeological Britain find skeleton skeletons diagram newspapers press Pakistan archaeological site excavations archeology natural phenomena B&W dig engraved engraving finds Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century The Print Collector ancient site human remains Illustrated London News Sindh TGN wood engraving ILN newspaper map Unknown Bellasis MANSURA 19th-century al-Mansurah Brahminabad Brahmunabad Augustus Fortunatus Bellasis Augustus Fortunatus A. F. A. F. Bellasis