Indus Valley Civilisation (Harappa and Mohenjo-daro)
Civilización del valle del Indo (Harappa y Mohenjo-daro)
- Date
- 1921-1924 · confidence high
- Place
- Mohenjo-daro, Sindh, Pakistan
- Credited to
- Rakhaldas Banerji (Mohenjo-daro, 1922), Daya Ram Sahni (Harappa, 1921), John Marshall (announcement, 1924)
- People
- 👤 Daya Ram Sahni1879–1939👤 John Marshall
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Excavations revealed an unknown urban civilisation of 2600-1900 BCE, with planned cities, sewerage, standardised weights and a still-undeciphered script. It added a fourth great river civilisation to antiquity.
Coordinates of Mohenjo-daro. Indian archaeologists made the discoveries, credited to Marshall for decades. The Indus script remains undeciphered.
What it led to
- Prehistory of the Indian subcontinent
- Debate over the origin of the Indo-Aryans
- Study of its collapse due to climate change (the monsoon)
Built on
- Harappa bricks used as railway ballast (1856)
- Archaeological Survey of India
Made possible
- Urban archaeology of South Asia