(ORDO NEWS) — Mohenjo-Daro (“hill of the dead”) is a city of the Indus Valley Civilization, which arose around 2600 BC. e. It is located in Pakistan, in the province of Sindh.
It is the largest ancient city of the Indus Valley and one of the first cities in the history of South Asia, a contemporary of the civilization of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.
It was discovered in 1920 along with the city of Harappu in Pakistan. The cities are obviously erected according to the Vedic tradition.
Mohenjo-Daro stands out among other centers of the Indus civilization with an almost ideal layout, the use of baked bricks as the main building material, as well as the presence of complex irrigation and religious buildings.
Among other buildings, attention is drawn to the granary, the “large pool” for ritual ablutions with an area of 83 square meters. m. and an elevated “citadel” (apparently intended to protect against floods).
The width of the streets in the city reached 10 m. In Mohenjo-Daro, almost the first public toilets known to archaeologists, as well as the city sewerage system, were discovered.
Part of the territory of the lower city, where commoners settled, was eventually flooded by the Indus and therefore remains unexplored.
The discovery of 5000 years ago proved that a highly developed civilization existed in these places. And a well-established culture.
Judge for yourself if a city of high civilization is 5000 years old, then civilization itself could not arise in one day, and this civilization has no less long prehistory.
Which means that the civilization and mind that built these cities is even older. A simple logical conclusion follows from this. That you can safely add 2000 years to the age of the cities found
The total age of the civilization itself was at least 7000 years.
The most interesting thing is that the city of Mahenjadara was destroyed by a nuclear explosion. In the bones of the skeletons found at the excavation site of Mohenjo-Daro (Mahenjadara), the level of radiation exceeded several times. The river that flowed nearby evaporated in an instant.
For many decades, archaeologists have been concerned about the mystery of the death of the city of Mohenjo-Daro in India.
In 1922, the Indian archaeologist R. Banarji discovered ancient ruins on one of the islands of the Indus River. They were called Mohenjo-Daro, which means “Hill of the Dead”.
Even then, questions arose: how was this big city destroyed, where did its inhabitants go? The excavations did not give an answer to any of them…
In the ruins of buildings there were no numerous corpses of people and animals, as well as fragments of weapons and traces of devastation. Only one fact was obvious – the catastrophe happened suddenly and did not last long.
The decline of culture is a slow process, no traces of the flood have been found.
Moreover, there is indisputable evidence that speaks of massive fires. The epidemic does not strike people calmly walking the streets or doing business, all of a sudden and at the same time.
And that is exactly what happened – this is confirmed by the location of the skeletons. Paleontological studies also reject the epidemic hypothesis.
With good reason, one can also reject the version of a sudden attack by the conquerors, none of the discovered skeletons has any traces left by melee weapons.
For many decades, archaeologists have been concerned about the mystery of the death of the city of Mohenjo Daro in India 3500 years ago.
In 1922, the Indian archaeologist R. Banarji discovered ancient ruins on one of the islands of the Indus River. They were called Mohenjo-Daro, which means “Hill of the Dead”.
Even then, questions arose: how was this big city destroyed, where did its inhabitants go? The excavations did not give an answer to any of them…
In the ruins of buildings there were no numerous corpses of people and animals, as well as fragments of weapons and traces of devastation. Only one fact was obvious – the catastrophe happened suddenly and did not last long.
The decline of culture is a slow process, no traces of the flood have been found. Moreover, there is indisputable evidence that speaks of massive fires.
The epidemic does not strike people calmly walking the streets or doing business, all of a sudden and at the same time. And that is exactly what happened – this is confirmed by the location of the skeletons.
Paleontological studies also reject the epidemic hypothesis.
With good reason, one can also reject the version of a sudden attack by the conquerors, none of the discovered skeletons has any traces left by melee weapons.
A very unusual version was expressed by the Englishman D. Davenport and the Italian E. Vincenti.
They claim that Mohenjo-Daro survived the fate of Hiroshima. The authors give the following arguments in favor of their hypothesis.
Among the ruins, there are scattered pieces of baked clay and green glass (whole layers!). In all likelihood, sand and clay, under the influence of high temperature, first melted, and then instantly hardened.
The same layers of green glass appear in the desert of Nevada (USA) every time after a nuclear explosion.
An analysis of the samples, carried out at the University of Rome and in the laboratory of the Italian National Research Council, showed that the melting occurred at a temperature of 1400-1500 degrees.
Such a temperature in those days could be obtained in the hearth of a metallurgical workshop, but not in a vast open area.
If you carefully examine the destroyed buildings, it seems that a clear area has been outlined – the epicenter, in which all the buildings are swept away by some kind of squall.
From the center to the periphery, the destruction gradually decreases. The most preserved outlying buildings In a word, the picture resembles the consequences of atomic explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Is it conceivable to assume that the mysterious conquerors of the Indus River Valley possessed atomic energy “This assumption seems incredible and categorically contradicts the ideas of modern historical science.
However, the Indian epic Mahabharata speaks of some kind of “explosion” that caused “blinding light, fire without smoke”, while “the water began to boil, and the fish were charred”.
That this is just a metaphor,” D. Davenport believes that it is based on it. some real events.
Mohenjo-Daro occupied an area of about 259 hectares and was a network of quarters (the oldest example of such a layout), separated by wide streets with a developed drainage system, which were divided into smaller ones and built up with baked brick houses.
The dating of this settlement is still the subject of debate. Radiocarbon analysis and links with Mesopotamia allow us to attribute it to 2300-1750. BC.
When the Indian archaeologists D. R. Sahin and R. D. Banerjee were finally able to look at the results of their excavations, they saw the red-brick ruins of the oldest city in India belonging to the proto-Indian civilization, a city rather unusual for the time of its construction – 4.5 thousand years ago.
It was planned with the greatest meticulousness: the streets stretched as if in a ruler, the houses were mostly the same, the proportions resembling cake boxes.
But behind this “cake” shape, the following construction was sometimes hidden: in the center there is a courtyard, and around it there are four or six living rooms, a kitchen and a ablution room (houses with this layout are found mainly in Mohenjo-Daro, the second big city).
The passages for stairs preserved in some houses suggest that two-story houses were also built. The main streets were ten meters wide.
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