Originally posted by lonewolf19792000
Tales abound all throughout history of the ancient city of Mohenjo Daro. Archeaologists have found minute traces of radiation and many of the walls and ruins of structures have had their stone blocks vitrified in some sort of cataclysm that fused the stone blocks together like magma.
I would question that claim; most of MD is made of fired mud brick with mortar. Radiation? In parts of that region there are local areas with natural uranium deposits but could you link to a report that has radiation at the city site itself?
Some scientists say it would have taken a tremndous amount of heat equivalent of 3000+ degrees to fuse those blocks like that.
Like who? If you are gonna try the nuke theory that one was debunked decades ago...
Ancient alien theorists toss around tales and theories of alien invaders dropping nukes on the city. We do not know for sure what happened, other than local lore and myths and legends. Perhaps an asteroid struck nearby at some point, or a volcanic eruption. We just do not know. I looked up the co-ordinates on google earth and they are 27.325313, 68.133055. You really cannot grasp how large that city was until youre looking down on it from above. Mohenjo Daro is easily 3-4 times the size of Babylon.
MD was destroyed and rebuilt at least seven times. It is possible it's final abandonment was caused by the shifting of the Indus away from the city, without water the place and the agriculture died, another theory is that a few years of unseasonable flooding destroyed the agricultural base and the city was given up.
edit on 30/1/12 by Hanslune because: (no reason given)
