Overview
Harappa in Punjab was occupied for nearly two thousand years, from early village settlements to a major walled city at its height between about 2600 and 1900 BCE. Excavations here in the 1920s first revealed that the Indus Valley had been home to a forgotten urban civilization.
Much of the ancient brick was removed in the 19th century to build railway embankments, but the mounds, gateways and cemeteries still tell a remarkable story.
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