The Mystery of Mohenjo Daro

Mojenjo-Daro was an ancient city in the Indus Valley that is thought to have had over forty thousand people living in it.  Around 1750 BC people in this region began to leave their homes until the cities were eventually deserted.  When archaeologists first began digging up the ruins of the city they found many clues as to how the people lived but none as to why they left the once-great city.  Skeletons were even found in the street as though the people died right in the road.  This is The Girl's idea of what may have happened to the people of Mohenjo-Daro.

It was a still night in Mohenjo-Daro.  The doctor scurried into the little house down the street.  Another patient had died, the fourth one that day.  Almost everyone had left the city in search of a new place without the nasty sickness.  The only people still in the city were the doctor, a few patients and all the bodies of everyone who had died.  The victim tonight was an 11-year-old girl.  Her parents and her brother had left the city after the girl got the sickness.  She had died alone.  After the girl died, a few more people died soon after and the doctor decided to leave.  But before he left he buried all the people who had died from the sickness and he hoped they were grateful.