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    The document provides an introduction to the ancient Indus Valley civilization. It was located in modern-day Pakistan and northwest India along the Indus River basin around 4500 years ago. The civilization covered an area of one million square kilometers and had major cities like Harappa and Mohenjo Daro. The document then describes the Great Bath, an ancient structure found at Mohenjo Daro that is believed to have been used for ritual bathing. It had staircases, a drain, and watertight walls and floor made of finely fitted bricks.

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    The document provides an introduction to the ancient Indus Valley civilization. It was located in modern-day Pakistan and northwest India along the Indus River basin around 4500 years ago. The civilization covered an area of one million square kilometers and had major cities like Harappa and Mohenjo Daro. The document then describes the Great Bath, an ancient structure found at Mohenjo Daro that is believed to have been used for ritual bathing. It had staircases, a drain, and watertight walls and floor made of finely fitted bricks.

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    The document provides an introduction to the ancient Indus Valley civilization. It was located in modern-day Pakistan and northwest India along the Indus River basin around 4500 years ago. The civilization covered an area of one million square kilometers and had major cities like Harappa and Mohenjo Daro. The document then describes the Great Bath, an ancient structure found at Mohenjo Daro that is believed to have been used for ritual bathing. It had staircases, a drain, and watertight walls and floor made of finely fitted bricks.

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    The document provides an introduction to the ancient Indus Valley civilization. It was located in modern-day Pakistan and northwest India along the Indus River basin around 4500 years ago. The civilization covered an area of one million square kilometers and had major cities like Harappa and Mohenjo Daro. The document then describes the Great Bath, an ancient structure found at Mohenjo Daro that is believed to have been used for ritual bathing. It had staircases, a drain, and watertight walls and floor made of finely fitted bricks.

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    INTRODUCTION

    You’ve heard of Mesopotamia as the cradle of civilization but did you know
    there was another cradle in the Indus valley on our Indian subcontinent?
    Hello and welcome to
    My name is Yanika and today we’re going to explore the ancient Indus valley
    and the mysterious culture that flourished there.
    The indus valley civilization named after the indus river basin which
    supported it, was located in what is modern day Pakistan and North West
    India. The civilisation is often compared to Egypt and Mesopotamia as being
    one of the oldest, approximately 4500 year old civilisation and most
    significant in the world. It is also known as the Harappan civilisation after the
    first city which was discovered in the modern day Harappa. It covered an area
    of one million square kilometers which is like 2 Spains.
    There is no evidence of kings or priests for the Harappans, no royal tombs or
    palaces or any state religion, temples, pyramids. No signs or army, weapons,
    slaves. They were more interested in trade than conquest, all of them seem to
    have lived equal lives. They focused on building public baths and sewage
    systems.
    The civilisation may have been split up in different domains like harappa,
    rakhigarhi, mohenjo daro, chanhudaro etc.
    The houses of the ordinary people had an apparent concern for privacy, there
    are no windows in the walls on the ground floor. The main door did not
    provide a direct view of the interior. Every house had a bathroom of their own
    paved with bricks and connected to street drains. Some houses had staircases
    reaching the 2nd storey or the roof. Many houses had wells which could also
    be used by outsiders.
    Seals were the most prominent finds which baffled everyone along with
    inscriptions in a never before seen language. The reasons for its vanishment,
    still remain ununderstood.
    GREAT BATH

    The Great bath is an ancient structure at Mohenjo Daro. It is an archeological


    site featuring the ruins of the Indus valley Civilization. The great bath dates to
    the third millennium before the common era and is believed to have been used
    for ritual purposes. It is known as the earliest public water tank of the ancient
    world. 2 flights of staircases from North and South serve as an entry into the
    structure. A hole was also found at one end of the bath which might have been
    used to drain water into it. The floor of the tank was watertight due to finely
    fitted bricks laid on the edge with gypsum plaster and the side walls were
    constructed in a similar manner to make the tank even more watertight. There
    were rooms on three sides, in one of which was a large well. Across a lane to
    the north lay a smaller building with eight bathrooms, four on each side of a
    corridor, with drains from each bathroom connecting to a drain that ran along
    the corridor.

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