Bronze Age India

Lothal

An Indus Valley town with a possible ancient dockyard.

Overview

Lothal was a small but busy Indus Valley town known for bead-making and trade. Its most famous feature is a large brick-lined basin that excavator S. R. Rao interpreted as a dockyard — an interpretation that some archaeologists still debate.

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