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The cities of the ancient Indus were noted for their urban planning, baked brick houses, elaborate drainage systems, water supply systems, clusters of large non-residential buildings, and techniques of handicraft and metallurgy. Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa very likely grew to contain between 30,000 and 60,000 individuals, and the civilization may have contained between one and five million individuals during its fluorescence. A gradual drying of the region during the 3rd millennium BCE may have been the initial stimulus for its urbanization. Eventually, it also reduced the water supply enough to cause the civilization's demise and disperse its population to the east.
Although over a thousand Mature Harappan sites have been reported and nearly a hundred excavated, there are five major urban centers: Mohenjo-daro in the lower Indus Valley, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980 as "Archaeological Ruins at Moenjodaro”, Harappa in the western Punjab region, Ganeriwala in the Cholistan Desert, Dholavira in western Gujarat, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2021 as "Dholavira: A Harappan City", and Rakhigarhi in Haryana. The Harappan language is not directly attested, and its affiliations are uncertain, as the Indus script has remained undeciphered. 

 

"These discoveries establish the existence in Sind (the northernmost province of the Bombay Presidency) and the Punjab, during the fourth and third millennium B.C., of a highly developed city life; and the presence, in many of the houses, of wells and bathrooms as well as an elaborate drainage-system, betoken a social condition of the citizens at least equal to that found in Sumer, and superior to that prevailing in contemporary Babylonia and Egypt. . . . Even at Ur the houses are by no means equal in point of construction to those of Mohenjo-daro.” whose words are these?

1
Shereen Ratnagar
2
Jonathan Parry
3
John Marshall
4
RS Sharma

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