While torrential rains continue to cause damage to life and property across Pakistan, new reports have revealed that archaeological remains might also be in danger of sustaining harm.

Reports say that water has gathered in the low-lying areas of Mohenjo Daro and authorities have not managed to drain it.

The standing water coupled with additional rains has caused cracks to appear in many walls of the prehistoric ruins.

Mohenjo-Daro, located in modern-day Larkana district, is one of the two centres of the Indus Valley Civilisation which existed from 2500–1700 BCE along with Harappa in modern-day Sahiwal, Punjab.

The name Mohenjo-Daro means mound of the dead. Its archaeological significance first came to the fore in 1922 and it was declared a UN heritage site in 1980.

A photo of Mohenjo-Daro also appears on Pakistan’s 20-rupee note.

Historians say there is evidence of the devastation of multiple floods in the city.