A woman sits on the front step of her home, built to Lari's bamboo, earth and lime designs.
Heritage Foundation of Pakistan
BY CIARA NUGENT
FEBRUARY 17, 2023 12:57 PM EST
Pakistan is home to one of the ancient world’s most impressive examples of flood-resilient design. The ruins of Mohenjo-Daro, a bronze age city in the southeastern province of Sindh, sit on raised platforms with sophisticated drainage systems that protected them from annual monsoon rains. Those features have helped the remains of these earthen buildings survive for 4,500 years—and weather the devastating floods that have repeatedly struck Pakistan over the last decade, most recently submerging a third of the country in August 2022.
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