[pepsionice]

One factor I would throw out there....they are in a contained area (mountains to the north) and invasion by others is pretty limited. If you lacked wars, invasions, or threats...you probably didn’t get into fortifications or castles.

[mewzilla]

Absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence.

[ryderann]

Mass suicide?

[stockpirate]

ping

[bunkerhill7]

“no managerial elites”...they got rid of all the Democrats

[Reno89519]

Considering the backward tribal cultures that replaced them, I guess they lost civil focus, maybe let homosexuals, crime, and all destroy them.

[bert]

BFL

[Pontiac]

It was also astonishingly advanced: sophisticated and complex, boasting large, carefully laid out cities, a relatively affluent population, writing, plumbing and baths, wide trade connections, and even standardized weights and measures.

Sorry you don’t have complexity without planning.

You don’t planning without a planner.

A planner is is a leader. A leader is by definition is part of a hierarchy.

Find their god/gods and you will find their hierarchy.

Their religion will be the source of the lack of temples and palaces.

I suspect that the lack of temples and statues in their cities is due to laws like the Jewish religion’s prohibition of graven images.

[Candor7]

A personal experience about Mohenjo-daro

https://www.dawn.com/news/1316323

It likely was a colony of ancient Shambhala (Sanskrit: शम्भल Śambhala)

https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-asia/mysteries-kingdom-shambhala-001529

[Savage Beast]

The articles you posted are fascinating.

"Sindhu gave birth to this place (Mohenjo-Daro), which gave birth to India and then Pakistan."

Do you connect Sindhu to the advanced civilizations chronicled in the Mahabharata?

[nitzy]

But...without a “ruling class or managerial elite”...Who would build the roads?