INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION  

                              2500-1750 BC

                                                         

  MAJOR CITY

   HARAPPA , exacavated by Dayaram sahani

                     

    MOHEN JODAR ,exacavated by Rakhal das Banerjee


     KALIBANGAN exacavated by B B Lal

                         

    LOTHAL,exacavated by Rangnath Raw

                        

      DHOLAVIRA , exavated by Ravindra singh

 

      ALAMGIRPUR ,exavated by Yagadutta sharma

  

         CHANHUDARO ,exacavated by J H Mackay

  

 

 

1. Charles Masson was the first person to discover and document the ruins of Harappa in the year 1842

2. Mohenjodaro means‘ Mound of the  Dead’ in Sindhi language

3. Its script script  was pictographic ,This style is also called ‘Boustrophedon’.





4. It was contemporary to Mesopotamia and Egypt, but was bigger than both

5. Rakhigarhi of Haryana is considered the lagest Harappan site

6. For town planning they followed the Grid System

7. Only Harappa and Lothal  had the main door and window at the main street

8. Drainage system was absent in Banwali

9. Dholavira is the second largest site and was famous for water management system

10. They used wheat, barley, peas ,mustard, rice and etc

11. The Indus people were the first to produce cotton.

12. Maximum number of granaries was found in Harappa.

13. Bead Making factorty existed in Chandhudaro and Lothal.

14. Bronze idol of dancing girl found at Mohenjodaro


                                          

15. They worshiped mother Goddess and pashupati( The Siva)

16. Fire altars havebeen found from kalibangan and Lothal

17. The evidence of coffin burial found from Harappa

18. A seal representing Mother Goddess with a plant growing from her womb have been found from Mohenjodaro

19. Kalibangan gives the evidence of seven ‘fire-altars’ in a row  and bones of camel.

20. A ship designed on a seal discovered from Lothal

21. Chanhu-daro was the only Harappan city without  a citade.

22. Exacavators suggested that Kot-Diji was destructed by fire.

23. Ropar is Harappan site from where remains of pre-harappan and Harappan cultures have been found.

24. Amalananda Ghosh was the first Archaeologist to identify similarties between a Pre-Harappan culture and Mature Harappan culture

25. A Bronze figures of bullock cart have been found from Chanhu-daro