MOEN-JO-DARO

Around 3,500 B.C., communities moved from the west side of the Indus to the east. They started to live permanently, depending entirely on Indus River System. No one knows how is settlement evolved into an advanced civilization. Moen-Jo-Daro is located 20 kilometers south of Larkana in the province of Sindh. . The Indus River flows to the east, five kilometers away.

             The discovery of was made in 1922 A.D. The city covers about five kilometers in circumference. It is divided into two parts. There is the hill, the mound, over to the west and the larger lower city down to the east where most of the people lived. The mound is purposefully

Higher than the rest of the city so that the people who lives their could have a clear view over the citizen of the city. Another reason for this is that the citizen should know that they are under some body that has the power.

 THE RUINS O F MOEN-JO-DRO SHOWS THERE WERE SEVERAL BUILDING ON ONE SIDE OF THE MOUND.ONE OF THEM IS BIG STRUCTURE BELIVED TO BE THE   BASE OF A HUGE GRANARY. THE LOARDS MUST HVE THOUGHT THAT IT SHOULD LOCATE IN CENTER SO TO HAVE A CLOSE VIEW            

The lower city of Moen-Jo-Daro, where the houses, shops and craft workshops were located, is a fine example of good urban planning. The main streets are about nine meters wide and run at righ-angles to each other, dividing the town into roughly rectangular blocks measuring about 360 meters by 240 meters. Between these main streets run a series of lanes, also at right-angles, usually about 1.5 to 3 meters wide. The overall quality of domestic accommodation was very high. Fired bricks were used for the construction of the walls. There is evidence that the internal walls were plastered, though the rendering of the external wall is not certain.

THERE DRAINAGE SYSTEM WAS VERY GOOD ONE.