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DID yOU KNOW?
THE HARAPPAN CIVILIZATION The ASI began excavations at Sanauli, Uttar
Pradesh in 2005. They identified the site as
a prominent cemetery site of late Harappan
The Indus Valley Civilization was a Bronze Age Civilization and one of period. The site was accidentally discovered
by the locals who were leveling the land
the ancient civilizations of the world. The excavation of Indus Valley sites for agriculture purposes. Around 125 burial
suggests that they were well planned. The Indus cities had a network of sites have been found.
streets, granaries for food storage, sanitation and water supply systems. Bhagyasree B, IXA, Bharatiya
Vidya Bhavan’s Public School, Jubilee
Aishwarya. S, XD, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Public School, Jubilee Hills, Hills, Hyderabad
Hyderabad

ANCieNt CitY oF LothAL
eXCAVAtioNs oF the iNdUs VALLeY
lothal in gujarat
CiViLiZAtioN today, was one
of the most
in 1856, the british were working on a railway line prominent cities
and discovered fire-baked bricks, which they used in of ancient india.
construction. soon stone artefacts were discovered it was discovered
among the bricks. These railway workers had actually in 1954 by
discovered the remnants of the indus Valley Civilization.
the archaeological
in 1853, alexander Cunningham made a few excavations survey of india (asi).
at harappa and discovered ancient pottery, some stone The dominant site at lothal is the massive dockyard.
tools, and a stone seal. in the 1920s, polished stone seals it was an important trade centre with its trade
just like the ones at in beads, gems and valuable ornaments reaching the
harappa were found farthest corners of west asia and africa.
at Mohenjo-Daro. Prathyastee Acharya, IXD , Delhi Public School, Jabalpur; Shazia Khan, VIII,
Major excavations Little Ones Public School, Delhi; Aditi Choudhary, VE, Bridgeford School,
were carried out Tupudana, Ranchi
in 1986 with the
establishmen t ACtiVitY: the hAPPY
of the harappan
a r chaeolog ical hArAPPAN!!
Project, or harP.
imagine you are in a time machine
and have gone back to a city in
the indus Valley Civilization. here
disCoVeriNG rAKhiGArhi you lived as a farmer, potter or a
The recent excavations at rakhigarhi make this place the merchant travelling around the
largest harappan site. excavations have since uncovered world! You could chose any other
huge planned cities with public baths, metal workshops, such profession. write a happy
massive granaries, dockyards, household plumbing and story of your life in 200 words.
seals. Illustration by: Arushi Srivastava, VIII, Bhatnagar
Intl. School, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi
however, what makes this site different from previous
sites is that DNa samples
collected from the skeletons
at the cemetery here are
set to crack a major mystery
surrounding their lives,
diseases and race of the
people who lived here
around 5,000 years ago. The granary discovered at Rakhigarhi

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