In five pages this site is examined in an historical overview that also includes recent findings. Five sources are cited in the bibliography.
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after its first discovered city, Harappa" (Anonymous Ancient Indus: Introduction, 2002; har1.html). Interestingly enough, "Harappa was settled before the Harappans of the Indus Valley, and they were replaced by other
still anonymous peoples" (Anonymous Ancient Indus: Introduction, 2002; har1.html). History Apparently "the re-discovery of Harappa" occurred "in the early 19th century by the explorers Charles Masson and
Alexander Burnes, and the archaeologist Sir Alexander Cunningham in the 1870s. This work led to the first excavations in the early 20th century at Harappa by Rai Bahadur Daya Ram
Sahni, and by R.D. Banerji at another Indus Valley city, Mohenjo-daro" (Anonymous Ancient Indus: Introduction, 2002; har1.html). In the middle of the 19th century, when the railroad was being laid
in the area, an archeologist, Alexander Cunningham, mistakenly thought that many of the bricks they were crushing for the railroad bed were from nearby seventh-century Buddhist temples" (Menon, 1998; p.
67). He decided to investigate and "Instead he reported the recovery of some pottery, carved shell, and a badly damaged seal depicting a one-horned animal, bearing an inscription in an
unfamiliar writing. That seal was a mark of one of the worlds great ancient civilizations, but mid-nineteenth-century archeologists like Cunningham knew nothing of it" (Menon, 1998; p. 67). Though
some studies were conducted in the area, from time to time, we find that many decades have passed, here and there, between investigations. "Since 1986, the joint Pakistani American Harappa
Archaeological Research Project (HARP) has been carrying out the first major excavations at the site in forty years. These excavations have the shown Harappa to have been far larger than
once thought, perhaps supporting a population of 50,000 at certain periods" (Anonymous Ancient Indus: Introduction, 2002; har1.html). Every season new artifacts and new clues are found. Description