Question

Explain how the Harappan civilisation was discovered?

Answer 1

Instructions: The answer to this question must include the following points:

• The construction of railway track
• The bricks from the ruins
• The initiative of the archaeologists

Solution:

• Around a hundred and fifty years ago, the British engineers were laying down railway lines in Punjab. The soil was loose and so they needed hard objects to fix it.
• The engineers found several ready made bricks of high quality from a nearby ruin of an old building. They used those bricks for laying the railway lines.
• Nearly eighty years ago, the archaeologists started excavating the place from where the bricks were found. It was found to be Harappa and thus the Harappan civilisation was discovered.