Sacred site · c. 2500 BCE

The Indus cities and the Great Bath

Mohenjo-daro, Sindh, Pakistan

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Mohenjo-daro and Harappa were the great cities of the Indus civilisation, whose script has never been read. On Mohenjo-daro's high mound stands the Great Bath, a watertight brick tank generally thought to have served ritual bathing, though how it was used and what beliefs it served are unknown.

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