UNEARTHED DEEP DOWN BELOW THE BUDDHIST MONUMENTS OF THE SECOND CENTURY AT MOHENJO-DARO: MUCH EARLIER REMAINS–A STAIRCASE OUTSIDE A SHRINE, WITH A CONDUIT COVERED BY MARBLE SLABS (IN THE FOREGROUND). Photography by the Archaeological Survey of India, Western Circle. By Couresy of Sir John Marshall.

[This was the first image encountered by someone looking through The Illustrated London News issue of September 20, 1924, in the center of a full page with this essay by John Marshall First Light on a Long Forgotten Civilization New Discoveries of an Unknown Prehistoric Past in India].