The Indus Civilization c5.4

c5.4

It is, of course, impossible to say whether a civic body or a single official supervised the building activities, but they were evidently in very competent hands, and it is interesting to note that the Indus Valley cities are the earliest sites yet discovered where a scheme of town-planning existed. There is no evidence of such a scheme at Ur as late as 2000 B.C., though there are traces of one at Babylon at about this date, and also at the Twelfth Dynasty town of Kahun in Egypt.