At threat from Pakistan’s monster monsoon, the 5,000-year-old heritage of Mohenjo Daro
In the 1960s, the hydrology of Robert L Raikes and archeologist George F Dales put forward the theory that a series of disaster floods in the Indus around c. 1800 BC has destroyed the centers of the big city of Harapanpan. Last week, the Pakistani Department of Archeology warned that heavy rains in Sindh Province threatened the status of World Heritage Mohenjo Daro, one of the largest Indus valley civilizations.
Mohenjo Daro’s prehistoric antiquity, which developed on the right edge (western) of the Indus River on the 3rd Millennium of BC was founded by Rakhal Das Barerji from the Indian Archeology Survey in 1922. The broad ruins of the city of Unbaked (BURNT (BURNT (BURNT (BURNT (BURNT (BURNT (BURNT (BURNT (BURTT (BURTT (BURNT (Burnt (Burnt (Burnt (Burnt of the Burn (Burnt in 1922.) Bata 510 km Northeast Karachi and 28 Km from Larapa in Sindh was recognized as the UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980.
The authorities at Sindh have asked for urgent attention to conservation and restoration work at the location, for fear that it can be removed from the list of world heritage, Dawn Dawn Pakistan reported on Sunday. The report said that the 5,000 -year -old site curator wrote to the Director of Culture, Antiques, and Archeology at the end of last month by saying “we have tried to protect the site with our resources”, but the department likes irrigation, roads, highways, and forests Need to enter because “landlords and farmers have … put pipes and give pieces into the canal and road to release water to the Mohenjo Daro channel”.
Dawn’s report said that between 16 and 26 August, Archaeological ruins Mohenjo Daro had received a record of 779.5 mm, which had resulted in “considerable damage to the site and partly fell from several walls, including walls of dome stupa protection”.
The nation reported that it had emerged on Thursday that the ruins “were not safe from the effects of heavy rain”, and that “DK regions, Muneer areas, stupes, large baths and other important sites from this ruins have been affected by bad disasters”.
The stairs of Paris, Stupa and DK regions, especially in the worst conditions,” said the National Report. It quoted the curator of the Ihsan Ali Abbasi website that said that “Although this ruins are not flooded with water, the continuous rainfall has eroded it”.
The Friday Times said in a report on August 31 that “Most of Mohenjo Daro, including mounds of icons from dead sites, had been damaged by flood water, with damaged areas damaged when water seeps and creates a flow when filling the location”.
In a separate report, the country said on Monday that “by seeing that … Mohenjo Daro … Facing the dangers of removal after challenging the bad floods of new flash floods and heavy rain”, the entry of tourists to the site has been prohibited.
Along with Harapanpa, Mohenjo Daro is the most famous site of the bronze urban civilization that developed in the Indus Valley between around 3,300 BC and 1,300 BC, with the ‘adult’ phase which included a period of 2,600 BC to 1,900 BC. Civilization experienced a decline in the midst of the second millennium of SM for the reasons believed to include disaster climate change.
The Indus Valley Civilization Site has been found in a large area that stretches from Sutkagen Dor in Balochistan near the Pakistan-Iran border to Rakhigarhi in Hisar Haryana District, and from Manda in Jammu to Daimabad in Maharashtra. Other important sites from Harapanpan civilization in India are in Lothal and Dholavira in Gujarat, and Kalibangan in Rajasthan.
