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Harappa (; ) is an archaeological site in Punjab, Pakistan, about west of Sahiwal. The site takes its name from a modern village located near the former course of the Ravi River. The current village of Harappa is from the ancient site. Although modern Harappa has a legacy railway station from the period of the British Raj, it is today just a small crossroads town of population 15,000.
The site of the ancient city contains the ruins of a Bronze Age fortified city, which was part of the Cemetery H culture and the Indus Valley Civilization, centered in Sindh and the Punjab. The city is believed to have had as many as 23,500 residents and occupied about with clay sculptured houses at its greatest extent during the Mature Harappan phase (2600–1900 BC), which is considered large for its time. Per archaeological convention of naming a previously unknown civilization by its first excavated site, the Indus Valley Civilization is also called the Harappan Civilization.
The ancient city of Harappa was heavily damaged under British rule, when bricks from the ruins were used as track ballast in the construction of the Lahore-Multan Railway. In 2005, a controversial amusement park scheme at the site was abandoned when builders unearthed many archaeological artifacts during the early stages of building work. A plea from the Pakistani archaeologist Ahmad Hasan Dani to the Ministry of Culture resulted in a restoration of the site.
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Over the years I heard a bit more about such Harappa gods as Naga the dragon, Nandi the bull, Honuman the monkey, as well as various animal and tree gods.
Bimbisara had built was on much the same grid pattern that I had so much admired in Babylon and in the abandoned Harappa city.
Thus it was that when the, ah, impetuous Aryans came down from the north they found such towns as Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa without even walls in the way of defense.
Asia Minor, with the Hittite Empire, and hers in Pakistan, excavating the cities of the Harappa Civilization.
Stile wondered whether the citizens of ancient Harappa, in the Indian subcontinent of Earth, had had a similar attitude.
Just as Rushdie is caught between two countries, Shakil is caught between two families, having moved from debauchery with Iskander Harappa to marriage with the daughter of Raza Hyder.
Structurally, the political career undertaken by Isky Harappa transforms the novel from family chronicle to political satire and darkens its black comedy to the point of apocalypse.
She remembered the digs around Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, in the Indus Valley, and the careful, patient native laborersthe painstaking foremen, the pickmen and spademen, the long files of basketmen carrying away the earth.
In 1922 the first finds were made at Harappa, in the southwestern Punjab.
Besides purification, the holy men of Harappa and the Indus valley practised yoga and renunciation of the world.
Medes, the Indo-Aryans have managed for close to forty generations to keep themselves unabsorbed by the Nagas or Dravidians or Harappas.