Indus Valley Civilization 2500 B.C.E.

  Indus Valley Civilization 2500 B.C.E. IVC flourished in around 2500 BCE, in the western part of South Asia, whose major part lies in present Pakistan & Western India. Indus Valley Civilization was one of the four largest ancient urban civilizations, namely – Egypt, Mesopotamia, India & China. Indus Valley Civilization: Discovery The Archaeological Department of India carried out excavations of the Indus Valley in the 1920s, in which the ruins of the two oldest cities of IVC, namely Mohenjodaro & Harappa were unearthed. After the discovery of Harappa by Daya Ram Sahni in 1921, John Marshall, the Director-General of the ASI, announced that an urban civilization existed in the Indus Valley region in around 2500 BCE. Indus Valley Civilization: Geographical Extent Geographically, Indus Valley Civilization covered Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan, Rajasthan, Gujarat and, Western Uttar Pradesh. It extended from Sutkagendor (in Balochistan, Pakistan) in the West to Alamgirpur (West...

Indus Valley Civilization 2500 B.C.E. IVC flourished in around 2500 BCE, in the western part of South Asia, whose major part lies in present Pakistan & Western India. Indus Valley Civilization was one of the four largest ancient urban civilizations, namely – Egypt, Mesopotamia, India & China. Indus Valley Civilization: Discovery The Archaeological Department of India carried out excavations of the Indus Valley in the 1920s, in which the ruins of the two oldest cities of IVC, namely Mohenjodaro & Harappa were unearthed. After the discovery of Harappa by Daya Ram Sahni in 1921, John Marshall, the Director-General of the ASI, announced that an urban civilization existed in the Indus Valley region in around 2500 BCE. Indus Valley Civilization: Geographical Extent Geographically, Indus Valley Civilization covered Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan, Rajasthan, Gujarat and, Western Uttar Pradesh. It extended from Sutkagendor (in Balochistan, Pakistan) in the West to Alamgirpur (Western UP...