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The Great Bath

Mohenjo-Daro
Town Planning
 The Great Bath of Mohenjo daro is called the "earliest public
water tank of the ancient world". It measures 11.88 × 7.01

The metres, and has a maximum depth of 2.43 metres. Two wide
staircases, one from the north and one from the south, served as
Great the entry to the structure. A 1 metre wide and 40 centimetres
Bath high mound is present at the ends of these stairs. A hole was also
found at one end of the Bath which might have been used to
drain the water into it.
 Mohenjo-daro , is an archaeological site in the province
of Sindh, Pakistan. Built around 2500 BCE, it was one of
the largest settlements of the ancient 
Indus Valley civilization, and one of the world's earliest
major cities, contemporaneous with the civilizations of 
ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Minoan Crete, and 
Mohenjo Daro Norte Chico. Mohenjo-daro was abandoned in the 19th
century BCE as the Indus Valley Civilization declined, and
the site was not rediscovered until the 1920s. Significant
excavation has since been conducted at the site of the city,
which was designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site in
1980. The site is currently threatened by erosion and
improper restoration
  The Indus civilization flourished around
cities. The ruins of the cities, so far
unearthed, show remarkable town
planning, and excellent system of
drainage and sanitation of the 
Town planning Indus Valley Civilization. The city was
the heart of the civilization. The life in the
Indus cities gives the impression of “a
democratic bourgeois economy” like that
of ancient Crete.