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    The Indus Valley Civilization developed between 3300-1300 BCE in the Indus River valley. It was first discovered in 1856 by railway workers and later excavated between 1921-1922. Major sites included Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro, and Lothal. Mohenjo-Daro had a population of around 40,000 people and was built around an organized grid layout with residential and administrative areas. Notable structures were the Great Bath, believed to be a public bathing area, and granaries for food storage. The civilization developed advanced urban infrastructure with drainage systems.

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    The Indus Valley Civilization developed between 3300-1300 BCE in the Indus River valley. It was first discovered in 1856 by railway workers and later excavated between 1921-1922. Major sites included Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro, and Lothal. Mohenjo-Daro had a population of around 40,000 people and was built around an organized grid layout with residential and administrative areas. Notable structures were the Great Bath, believed to be a public bathing area, and granaries for food storage. The civilization developed advanced urban infrastructure with drainage systems.

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    The Indus Valley Civilization developed between 3300-1300 BCE in the Indus River valley. It was first discovered in 1856 by railway workers and later excavated between 1921-1922. Major sites included Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro, and Lothal. Mohenjo-Daro had a population of around 40,000 people and was built around an organized grid layout with residential and administrative areas. Notable structures were the Great Bath, believed to be a public bathing area, and granaries for food storage. The civilization developed advanced urban infrastructure with drainage systems.

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    Indus Valley

    Civilization
    (33001300 BCE)
    mature peri26001900 BCE
    Discovery and history of excavation

    The ruins ofHarrappawere first described in Earliest civilizations in Indus Valley was
    1842 byCharles Massonin hisNarrative of discovered in 1856 by a railroad crew.
    Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan,
    and the Punjab,
    In 187275 Alexander Cunningham
    published the first Harappanseal
    In 1912, that more Harappan
    seals were discovered by
    J.Fleet, prompting an
    excavation campaign under
    Sir John Hubert Marshallin
    192122 and resulting in the
    discovery of the civilization at
    Harappa by Sir John Marshall,
    Rai Bahadur Daya Ram Sahni
    and Madho Sarup Vats, and at
    Mohenjo-darobyRakhal
    Das Banerjee, E.J.H.MacKay,
    and Sir John Marshall. By 1931,
    much of Mohenjo-Daro had
    been excavated, but
    excavations continued, such as
    that led by
    Sir Mortimer Wheeler, director
    of theArchaeological Survey of
    Roots of Indus Valley Civilization

    Harappa or Indus valley civilization(IVC) is a bronze age


    civilization.
    The Indus Valley Civilization encompassed most of
    Pakistan and parts of northwestern India, Afghanistan
    and Iran, extending fromBalochistanin the west to
    Uttar Pradeshin the east, northeastern Afghanistan to
    the north andMaharashtrato the south.
    Geography of IVC
    This civilization located at north
    western region of indian sub-
    continent.

    Many of the harappan


    settlements are found on the
    plane of saraswati which is dry
    today. It is also called indus-
    saraswati civilization and
    harappan civilization.

    The imp harappan sites are Kot


    Diji, Amri, Mohenjo-daro,
    Harappa, Kali banga, Mehrgarh,
    Mundigak, Damb Sadaat, Gumla,
    Dholavira, Lothal.
    Mohenjo-daro
    Mohenjo-Dara means The
    mound of the Dead
    Mohenjo-daro is located in the
    Larkana Districtof Sindh, Pakistan
    Uniqueness about the Mohenjo-
    daro is absence of any large scale
    monuments like Egyption
    civilization.
    It discovered in 1922 by indian
    Archaeologist Rakhal Das
    Banerjee.
    Mohenjo-Daro was designated
    the world heritage site in 1980. 3 miles in circumference with
    Mohenjo-daro was built in the populations of 40,000
    26th century BCE
    Architecture and urban infrastructure of
    IVC city (Mohenjo-Daro)
    Mohenjo-daro has a
    planned layoutbased on a
    street grid ofrectilinear
    buildings. Most were built of
    fired and mortaredbrick;
    some incorporated sun-dried
    mud-brick
    The city divided into two parts
    lower part and upper part.

    The town was well


    demarcated b/t official areas
    of the high lands and
    residential areas in low lands
    to the east.
    Lower part of the city

    In the lower part of the


    city the people lived and
    carried out their
    professional work.
    The city houses were
    well designed with
    houses of commoners
    or the lower class
    having two rooms and
    that of rich spanning
    from 5 to may be 6
    rooms.
    The streets based on the
    advanced grid system Some houses have their own well
    that were oriented from
    east to west and were 5
    to 10m wide.
    The drainage system
    from the houses linked
    with the wide streets
    drainage system to
    dispose waste in the
    Upper part of the city
    The upper part built on the
    raised platform is the CITADEL
    CITADEL describe as the fort or
    administrative block.
    They faced west. Massive wall
    measuring 1400ft*600ft on
    mound 40ft high had a brick
    embankment which was 45ft
    thick.
    The massive wall of citadel
    provided protection from attack
    and flood.
    Citadel also protect the imp
    buildings as Granary and
    Assembly or the town hall.

    GRANARY used for storing the


    gran in 1st flour storing
    GREAT
    BATH
    The another marvel situated in
    the heart of the CITADEL is a
    swimming pool famously known
    as the GREAT BATH
    Measurement are 12m long,7m
    wide and 2.43m deep.
    Great bath has two flight of steps
    one-one on each side.
    In bath provide two opening one
    to inlet water through a well and
    another at the bottom used as an
    outlet to drain water in the river
    indus.
    By this idea bath clean
    periodically.
    Small rooms around the bath
    probably used as changing
    rooms.

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