Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c7.132

c7.132

That final blow has often enough been described. It is represented by groups of skeletons—men, women and children, some bearing axe- or sword-cuts—which have been found lying on the topmost level in the sprawled or contorted positions in which they fell. They had been left there by raiders who had no further use for the city which they had stormed. In that moment Mohenjo-daro was dead.