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Dholavira (Gujarati: ધોળાવીરા) is an archaeological site at Khadirbet in Bhachau Taluka of Kutch District, in the state of Gujarat in western India, which has taken its name from a modern-day village 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) south of it. This village is 165 km (103 mi) from Radhanpur. Also known locally as Kotada timba, the site ...
Banawali is an archaeological site belonging to the Indus Valley civilization period in Fatehabad district, Haryana, India and is located about 120 km northeast of Kalibangan and 16 km from Fatehabad. Banawali, which is earlier called Vanavali, is on the left banks of dried up Sarasvati River. [1] Comparing to Kalibangan, which was a town ...
List of Indus Valley Civilisation sites. 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 ]
Province. Uttar Pradesh. Time zone. UTC+5.30 (Indian Standard Time) Alamgirpur is an archaeological site of the Indus Valley civilization that thrived along the Ganga-Yamuna Doab (c. 3300–1300 BC) from the Harappan - Bara period, located in Meerut district, Uttar Pradesh, India. [1][2] It is the easternmost known site of the civilization.
Kot Diji (Sindhi: ڪوٽ ڏیجي; Urdu: کوٹ ڈیجی) is an ancient site which was part of the Indus Valley Civilization, estimated to have been occupied around 3300 BCE. Located about 45 km (28 mi) south of Khairpur in the modern-day province of Sindh, Pakistan, it is on the east bank of the Indus River opposite Mohenjo-daro.
Gupta terracotta of the personified Ganges, 5th-6th century CE, National Museum, New Delhi. [1]Ahichchhatra or Ahikhet (Sanskrit: अहिच्छत्र, IAST: Ahicchatra) or Ahikshetra (Sanskrit: अहिक्षेत्र, IAST: Ahikṣetra), near the modern Ramnagar village in Aonla tehsil, Bareilly district in Uttar Pradesh, India, was the ancient capital of Northern Panchala, a ...
The Elephanta Caves are a collection of cave temples predominantly dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva, which have been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [1] [2] [3] They are on Elephanta Island, or Gharapuri (literally meaning "the city of caves"), [4] in Mumbai Harbour, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) east of Mumbai in the Indian state of Mahārāshtra.
Vaishali, Vesali or Vaiśālī was a city in present-day Bihar, India, and is now an archaeological site.It is a part of the Tirhut Division. [1]It was the capital city of the Vajjika League of Vrijji mahajanapada, considered one of the first examples of a republic around the 6th century BCE.