The Indus Civilization c5.75

c5.75

It is true that the bricks seem to vary in size according to the level of the city, but here again the excavator is thwarted by so much old material reappearing in the upper levels; as before mentioned, stacks of bricks, obviously taken from derelict buildings, have been found in courtyards, waiting to be used again, and these bricks are of many varying sizes. The custom of burying bodies in or underneath the corners of walls, so that the spirit of the dead might protect the building, is also unknown in the Indus Valley cities, and from the little pictorial material extant it is quite impossible to say whether special ceremonies accompanied the laying of foundations, as was the case in contemporary Sumer and Egypt.