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dated September 10, 1953: Mohenjodaro Museum

Rains in the Indus Valley had done "irreparable loss" to the museum at Mohenjodaro according to a report in the Karachi Morning News of the 7th. The museum building had collapsed reducing a four-feet long elephant tusk, dating back 5,000 years to smithereens. Other invaluable exhibits destroyed by rain included ivory antiquities, about 100 pieces of bronze articles, and many human figurines. The report added that the central site of the Indus Valley civilization in Larkhana district in Sind was threatened by the fast-changing course of the Indus river which had come to within four furlongs from the excavations.

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