Editing Mohenjo-daro (section)

== Etymology ==
The city's original name is unknown. Based on his analysis of a Mohenjo-daro seal, [[Iravatham Mahadevan]] speculates that the city's ancient name could have been ''Kukkuṭārma'' ("the city [''-rma''] of the [[cockerel]] [''kukkuta'']").{{citation needed|date=January 2023}} [[Cock-fighting]] may have had ritual and religious significance for the city.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}} Mohenjo-daro may also have been a [[diffusion of innovations|point of diffusion]] for the [[clade]] of the domesticated chicken found in Africa, Western Asia, Europe and the Americas.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=VMSF7m2CFTEC&q=mohenjo&pg=PA11 ''Poultry Breeding and Genetics'']. R. D. Crawford (1990). Elsevier Health Sciences. pp. 10–11, 44.<!-- ISBN needed --></ref>

Mohenjo-daro, the modern name for the site, has been interpreted as "Mound of the Dead" in [[Sindhi language|Sindhi]].<ref name="Name" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.harappa.com/mohenjo-daro/mohenjodaroessay.html|title=Mohenjo-daro An Ancient Indus Valley Metropolis|website=www.harappa.com}}</ref>