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in 1931 david davenport excavated the site and to found bunch of skeletons which he claimed to have high radiation from those bones.he claimed that mohenjo dark was destroyed due to atomic explosion .44 skeletons found in city ruins among which some where died holding their hands. mortimer wheeler the famous archaeologist ecxavated mohenjo daro sight in 1930’s and found a neckless in granary in a clay pot .instead of submitting it to covet he kept that neckless himself which he gifted to his third wife Margaret Norfolk. he thought neckless is lucky for him.but when margaret live india she gifted this neckless to an indian lady in simla the neckless is still in possession of that lady and it was exhibited in dubai in 2006. one british collector offered 80000 pounds but lady refused to give . 10.“There were nearly 12,000 artifacts from Mohenjodaro in India at the time of Partition,” Partition Council decided to divide all relics from Mohenjodaro, Chanhudaro and Taxila in half everything was divided into two four priceless necklaces from the period made of gold, jade and other precious materials that were broken up and the beads divided exactly in half, says Lahiri. The Dancing Girl’s lot fell to India, while the Priest King went back to Pakistan.

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