Which Indus Valley site is known for the Great Bath?

The Indus Valley site known for the Great Bath is Mohenjo-daro.

Located in Sindh, Pakistan, Mohenjo-daro was one of the largest cities of the Harappan or Indus Valley Civilization. The Great Bath was built on the city’s elevated citadel mound during the third millennium BCE. Its carefully fitted brickwork, gypsum plaster, and bitumen lining made the pool exceptionally watertight.

The tank measures approximately 12 metres long, 7 metres wide, and 2.4 metres deep. Staircases descend into it from the north and south, while a drainage outlet carried used water away. Nearby rooms, wells, and colonnaded areas suggest that the bath formed part of a substantial public complex rather than being a private household feature.

Archaeologists cannot prove exactly how the pool was used. Many scholars think it served ceremonial or religious bathing, but interpretations remain cautious because the Indus script has not been deciphered and no explanatory inscription survives. The Great Bath is therefore famous not simply as an ancient swimming pool, but as evidence of Harappan engineering, water management, and organized civic construction.