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The Indus Valley Civilization - Part 1

 Episode #2 Indus civilization , also called  Indus valley civilization  or  Harappan civilization , the earliest known  urban culture  of the Indian subcontinent. The nuclear dates of the civilization appear to be about 2500–1700  BCE , though the southern sites may have lasted later into the 2nd  millennium   BCE . Among the world’s three earliest civilizations—the other two are those of  Mesopotamia  and  Egypt —the Indus civilization was the most extensive. The recovery and study of the Indus civilization The civilization was first identified in 1921 at  Harappa  in the Punjab region and then in 1922 at  Mohenjo-daro  (Mohenjodaro), near the  Indus River  in the Sindh (Sind) region. Both sites are in present-day  Pakistan , in  Punjab  and  Sindh  provinces, respectively. The ruins of Mohenjo-daro were designated a UNESCO  World Heritage site  in 1980. Subsequently, vestiges of the civilization were found as far apart as  Sutkagen Dor  in southwestern  Balochistan  province, Pakist

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