Saturday 27 June 2015

INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION

Indus Valley Civilisation
Historian generally the study of the Indian history with the Aryans. In 1922 Mr. D.R. Bannerjee started burrow at Mohen-jo-Daro in the Larkana District of sind and he discovered ancient remains there. About the same time, Mr. R.B. Daya Ram Sahni carried on burrow at Harappa in the Montgomery District of Punjab. after all the distance between the two places is about 640 kilometres, yet the archaeological finds determined  at both these places are quite similar. The battered of these two old cities have proved that there thrive a highly developed civilization in the Indus Valley about 5,000 years ago. It is known as the Indus valley Civilization because it developed in the valley of the Indus river and its dependent.

Extent nd Chief Sites of this Civilization : Mohen-jo-Daro and Harappa
Mohen-jo-Daro and Harappa were the main displace of this civilization. Mohen-jo-Daro is situated in the larkana district if sind. It was a big city and was the capital of the Southern Region. Mohen-jo-Daro accurately means the "Mound of the Dead". Seven layers of the city have been unearthed. it shows that the city was sacked and reconstructed about seven times. any contingent visitor to the battered at Mohen-jo-Daro is bang by the remarkable skill in the town-planning. artery run straight, sometimes about a kilometre, and they interest at right angles. commonplace a building was allowed to Progress on a public highway. Secondly one is bang by the remarkable skill of the people of Mohen-jo-Daro in cleanliness.  The city had an careful drainage system consisting of street and house drains and absorb-pits.

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