Excavations have only revealed many outstanding artifacts, such as sitting and standing figurines, copper and stone tools, carved seals, scales, weights, gold and jasper jewelry, and children’s toys. The townspeople knew and used the lost-wax casting. They owned copper smelters. Archaeologists have found copper tablets containing examples of Indus script and iconography - to this day, the script has not yet been deciphered. Many pots were also found, which are believed to have been used for storing human ashes (perhaps that is why no cemeteries were found) or for heating houses. They were probably used for other purposes, such as cooking. A total of 12 thousand artifacts were found, mostly pottery shards. Some of them are now at the National Museum of India in New Delhi, and some at the National Museum of Pakistan in Karachi. A number of artifacts are housed in a museum now established in Mohenjo-daro itself.
