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List of Indus Valley Civilisation sites The Indus Valley Civilisation, 3300-1300 BCE, also known as the Harappan Civilization, extended from modern-day northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwest India . Rakhigarhi or Rakhi Garhi is a village and an archaeological site belonging to the Indus Valley civilisation in the Hisar District of the northern Indian state of Haryana, situated about 150 km northwest of Delhi. It was part of the mature phase of the Indus Valley Civilisation, dating to 2600-1900 BCE. [2]

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Mohenjo-daro, Harappa and Ganweriwala (all in Pakistan) and Rakhigarhi and Dholavira (both in India) are ranked as the first to the fifth biggest Harappan sites. Harappa ( Punjabi pronunciation: [ɦəɽəppaː]) is an archaeological site in Punjab, Pakistan, about 24 km (15 mi) 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 8. The discovery in January of two new mounds at the ancient Harappan site of Rakhigarhi in Haryana, India, now makes it the largest known site of the Harappan (Indus Valley) civilisation, even outdoing the well-known site of Mohenjo-daro in Pakistan. Dholavira: a Harappan city, is one of the very few well preserved urban settlements in South Asia dating from the 3rd to mid-2nd millennium BCE. Being the 6th largest of more than 1,000 Harappan sites discovered so far, and occupied for over 1,500 years, Dholavira not only witnesses the entire trajectory of the rise and fall of this early.

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India - Harappa, Indus Valley, Civilization: The vast mounds at Harappa stand on the left bank of the now dry course of the Ravi River in the Punjab. They were excavated between 1920 and 1934 by the Archaeological Survey of India, in 1946 by Wheeler, and in the late 20th century by an American and Pakistani team. When first discovered, the extensive surviving brick ramparts led to the site's. Being one among the five largest Harappan cities in the subcontinent, Dholavira has yielded many firsts in respect of Indus civilization. Fourteen field seasons of excavation through an enormous deposit caused by the successive settlements at the site for over 1500 years during all through the 3rd millennium and unto the middle of the 2nd. But in 1963 when the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) discovered Rakhigarhi, a village in Hisar District in the state of Haryana, they realized what they had found was a site, more ancient and much larger than Harappa and Mohenjo-daro sites. Dr. Rakhigarhi is a village in Hisar District in the state of Haryana in India, around 150 kilometers from Delhi. Spread over 350 hectares, this nondescript village is biggest Indus valley Civilisation site in the world, a city that was much larger and more ancient than Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro sites.

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Dholavira, a Harappan era city situated in Gujarat, is the latest entrant in the UNESCO World Heritage list. It was included in the list on July 27. The UNESCO this week added yet another archeological site to its list of world heritage list when it added Dholavira in Kutch district of Gujarat as one. The Harrapan-era village takes its pride of. Rakhigarhi is now largest Harappan site. Rakhigarhi is a village in Hisar District in the state of Haryana in India, around 150 kilometers from Delhi. Spread over 350 hectares, this nondescript village is biggest Indus valley Civilisation site in the world, a city that was much larger and more ancient than Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro sites. Dholavira's location is on the Tropic of Cancer. It is one of the five largest Harappan sites [3] and the most prominent of archaeological sites in India belonging to the Indus Valley Civilization. [4] It is located on Khadir bet island in the Kutch Desert Wildlife Sanctuary in the Great Rann of Kutch. Until now, Mohenjo-daro in Pakistan was considered the largest among the 2,000 Harappan sites known to exist in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. A recent report by the Archaeological Survey of India claims that Haryana's Bhirrana is the oldest Harappan site and Rakhigarhi the biggest Harappan site in Asia.

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That makes it far older than the site at Mehrgarh, Pakistan, which has been dated to 6400-7000 BC. The report also states that Rakhigarhi, a village close to Bhirana, is the largest Harappan site. Rakhigarhi, the biggest Harappan site ~2000 sites of Indus valley civilization in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Till now, the largest site: Mheonjo-daro, in Pakistan. Now the largest site= Rakhigarhi, Hayana Why Rakhigarhi important? from Indiatoday Industrial centre of Indus valley civilisation.