Mohenjo-daro and Harappa were actually larger than many contemporary cities in Europe and the Middle East, and then they simply vanished. Nobody rediscovered them until the 1920s. They sit alongside the Maya and Angkor as examples of major civilizations that completely disappeared from collective memory. Imagine entire advanced cities lost for thousands of years.
Indus Valley cities of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa vanished and were not rediscovered until the 1920s
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- Mohenjo-daro and Harappa were larger than many contemporaneous cities in Europe and the Middle East
- The Indus Valley cities vanished completely
- They were not rediscovered until the 1920s
- They are grouped with the Maya and Angkor as examples of major civilizations that disappeared
Sources
Mohenjo daro: Unsealing an Ancient Indus City - Harappaharappa.com
He walks through the nearly five thousand year old city of Mohenjo-daro, discusses recent speculations about the Great Bath and the so-called Stupa mound, and ...
Mohenjo-daro! - Harappaharappa.com
Mohenjo Daro, or "Mound of the Dead" is an ancient Indus Valley Civilization city that flourished between 2600 and 1900 BCE.
4500-year-old urban planning at Mohenjo-darofieldstudyoftheworld.com
Mohenjo-daro had a population of 40000 people and it was the most advanced city in the world in terms of urban planning and especially sanitation.
Rediscovering the lost city of Mohenjo Daro - National Geographicnationalgeographic.com
Mohenjo Daro, built at the time of the pyramids and centuries before the Roman Baths, was the largest city of the Indus Civilization.
Compare and contrast early cities (Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro) and ...brainly.in
... size Modern cities vary in size, from small towns to megacities. Population Mohenjo-daro is estimated to have had a population of 35,000 ...
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