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Harappa (Punjabi pronunciation: [ɦəɽəˈpaː]) is an archaeological site in Punjab, Pakistan, about 24 kilometres (15 miles) west of Sahiwal.The Bronze Age Harappan civilisation, now more often called the Indus Valley Civilisation, is named after the site, which takes its name from a modern village near the former course of the Ravi River, which now runs eight kilometres (five miles) to the ...
Indus Valley Civilisation Alternative names Harappan civilisation ancient Indus Indus civilisation Geographical range Basins of the Indus river, Pakistan and the seasonal Ghaggar-Hakra river, eastern Pakistan and northwestern India Period Bronze Age South Asia Dates c. 3300 – c. 1300 BCE Type site Harappa Major sites Harappa, Mohenjo-daro, Dholavira, and Rakhigarhi Preceded by Mehrgarh ...
The oldest-known site of the Indus Valley Civilization, Bhirrana, [7] and the largest site, Rakhigarhi, [8] are located in the Indian state of Haryana. More than 90% of the inscribed objects and seals that were discovered were found at ancient urban centres along the Indus river in Pakistan, mainly in Harappa and Mohenjo-daro.
Following excavations at Harappa and Mohenjo Daro, the prehistoric sites in Sindh and Baluchistan were thought to represent a culture that migrated from Baluchistan to the Indus Valley to establish the Indus Valley Civilisation. [9] This notion was refuted by M.R. Mughal based on his discovery of earlier occupational phases in the Cholistan Desert.
Pre-Harapan cultures map ca 3600–3200 BC. The big yellow squares are the modern-day Karachi, Lahore, and Delhi. Map includes the ceramics of Kechi Beg and Hakra phases. Sites included are Rehman Dheri, Kunal, Haryana, and early Harappa/pre-Harappan pottery on Makran coast of Pakistan
Soan Valley culture is considered as the best known Palaeolithic culture of Central Asia. [1] Mehrgarh in Balochistan is one of the most important Neolithic sites dating from 7000 BCE to 2000 BCE. The Mehrgarh culture was amongst the first culture in the world to establish agriculture and livestock and live in villages. [2]
The Great Bath of Mohenjo-daro (). Harappan architecture is the architecture of the Bronze Age [1] Indus Valley civilization, an ancient society of people who lived during c. 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE in the Indus Valley of modern-day Pakistan and India.
Articles relating to the city of Harappa and its depictions. It is an archaeological site in Punjab, Pakistan, about 24 km (15 mi) west of Sahiwal.The site of the ancient city contains the ruins of a Bronze Age fortified city, which was part of the Harappan Civilisation centred in Sindh and the Punjab, and then the Cemetery H culture.