Harappa
Harappa
Mohenjo-Daro was part of the Harappa culture. The area of the Indus Valley has been inhabited for about 500 000 years. This can be proven very well due to the numerous finds - do my homework : For example, Paleolithic flint workshops were discovered in the Rohri Mountains, west of Mohenjo-Daro. Mehrgarh, which has been inhabited by people since around 8000 BC, is considered the oldest verifiable village settlement in this territory.
An early advanced civilisation is named after the present-day site of Harappa on the Ravi (a tributary of the Indus in Punjab, Pakistan): the Harappa culture. It was mainly
- in the Indus Valley,
- in Sind,
- in Punjab and
- in Gujarat,
- on the Kathiawar peninsula and
- on the coast of Balochistan and in Afghanistan
widespread. Besides Harappa, there are also ruined sites in
- Mohenjo-Daro,
- Chanhu-Daro,
- Kot Diji,
- Kalibangan,
- Lothal,
outside the Indus plains - Sutkagen Dor in Balochistan and others.
The site of Harappa has been known since 1857, when British railway builders had millions of bricks removed from here to pave the Lahore-Multan railway line.
Archaeologist Sir Alexander Cunningham, who led the first excavations at Harappa, wrote in the Archaeological Survey of India Memoirs in 1875:
"I made several excavations at Harappa, but the whole surface had been so completely plundered by the railway builders that I found little worth preserving. My main discovery consisted of a number of stone tools for scraping wood and leather ..."