Mohenjo-Daro (continued)

Mohenjo-Daro has no places of worship or governance such as palaces royal tombs or temples, this may indicate that the society was not built around state interests like the Egyptian and Mesopotamian societies. At the time rather the class structure of Mohenjo-Daro may have been relatively equal to the city's second district. The Lower Town may demonstrate the societies egalitarian structure the Lower Town with its intricate water system was home to between 20,000 to 40,000 people. Unlike many urban areas of its time it was laid out in a grid system similar to modern-day city blocks. After approximately 600 years the city collapsed no one is quite sure why but the cause could potentially have been a change within the culture or in the path of the river without its crucial source of water. The city's residents may have moved away leaving Mohenjo-Daro nearly abandoned in 1911 nearly 4,000 years after the city fell into ruin. Archeologists paid their first visit the ensuing decades of excavations have unearthed countless clues that tell the tale of Mohenjo-Daro but it still holds secrets for us to discover.