1. The Indus Valley Civilization was a Bronze Age civilization in the northeast region of the Indian subcontinent, Flourishing around the Indus River basin, the civilization extended east into the Ghagger-Hahra River valley and the upper reaches Gangs-Yamuna Doab; it extended west to the Makran coast of Balochistan, north to northeastern Afghanistan and south to Daimabad in Maharashtra.
2. The civilization was spread over some 1,260,000 km2, making it the largest known ancient civilization.
3. The Indus Valley is one of the world's earliest urban civilizations, along with its contemporaries, Mesopotamia an d Ancient Egypt.
4. At its peak, the Indus Civilization may have had a population of well over five million.
5. Inhabitants of the ancient Indus river valley developed new techniques in handcraft and metallurgy.
6. The civilizations is noted for its cities built of brick, roadside drainage system, and multistoried houses.
7. The Indus Valley Civilization is also know as the Harappan Civilization, as the first of its cities to be unearthed was located at Harappa, excavated in the 1920s in what was at the time the Punjab province of British India.
8. Excavation of Harappan sites has been ongoing since 1920, with important breakthroughs occurring as recently as 1999.
9. There were earlier and later cultures, often called Early Harappan and late Harappan , in the same area of the harappan Civilization.
10. The Harappan Civilization is sometimes called the Mature Harappan culture to distinguish it from these cultures.
2. The civilization was spread over some 1,260,000 km2, making it the largest known ancient civilization.
3. The Indus Valley is one of the world's earliest urban civilizations, along with its contemporaries, Mesopotamia an d Ancient Egypt.
4. At its peak, the Indus Civilization may have had a population of well over five million.
5. Inhabitants of the ancient Indus river valley developed new techniques in handcraft and metallurgy.
6. The civilizations is noted for its cities built of brick, roadside drainage system, and multistoried houses.
7. The Indus Valley Civilization is also know as the Harappan Civilization, as the first of its cities to be unearthed was located at Harappa, excavated in the 1920s in what was at the time the Punjab province of British India.
8. Excavation of Harappan sites has been ongoing since 1920, with important breakthroughs occurring as recently as 1999.
9. There were earlier and later cultures, often called Early Harappan and late Harappan , in the same area of the harappan Civilization.
10. The Harappan Civilization is sometimes called the Mature Harappan culture to distinguish it from these cultures.