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According to the ASI, arguably Lothal had the world's earliest known dock, which connected the city to an ancient course of the Sabarmati River on the trade route. This trade route stretched between Harappan cities in Sindh and the peninsula of Saurashtra where the surrounding Kutch desert of today was a part of the Arabian Sea.
Water management was highly developed by the Harappan civilization. [8] Large scale water works, such as drainage systems, could be covered to cure blockages. Dams were also constructed that controlled water inlets. [8] The Lothal Dock Yard is away from the main current to avoid deposition of silt. There is a wood lock gate system to avoid ...
The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), also known as the Harappan Civilisation, was a major early civilisation, existing from 3300–1300 BCE. It covered much of modern-day Pakistan and northwest India , as well as possessing at least one trading colony in northeast Afghanistan . [ 1 ]
In the Indian maritime history, the world's first tidal dock was built in phase II of Lothal [82] [83] during the Harappan civilisation near the present day Mangrol harbour on the Gujarat coast. Other ports were probably at Balakot and Dwarka.
The other major Harappan sites discovered so far are Harappa, Mohenjo-daro, Ganeriwala, Rakhigarhi, Kalibangan, Rupnagar and Lothal. It was named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site under the name Dholavira: a Harappan City on 27 July 2021.
Rakhigarhi or Rakhi Garhi is a village and an archaeological site in the Hisar District of the northern Indian state of Haryana, situated about 150 km northwest of Delhi.It is located in the Ghaggar River plain, [1] some 27 km from the seasonal Ghaggar river, and belonged to the Indus Valley civilisation, being part of the pre-Harappan (6000?/4600-3300 BCE), early Harappan (3300-2600 BCE), and ...
The NMHC is being constructed near Lothal, an ancient maritime port city of Indus Valley Civillisation. The construction is being done under the Sagar Mala scheme of the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways of Government of India. [1] The masterplan was finalised in March 2019.
Indian maritime history begins during the 3rd millennium BCE when inhabitants of the Indus Valley initiated maritime trading contact with Mesopotamia. [1] India's long coastline, which occurred due to the protrusion of India's Deccan Plateau, helped it to make new trade relations with the Europeans, especially the Greeks, and the length of its coastline on the Indian Ocean is partly a reason ...