Indus Valley Civilization
Among the world’s three earliest civilizations—Mesopotamia, and Egypt—the Indus civilization was the most extensive. 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.
Dholavira
- Recently, Dholavira has been inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage list. With the addition of this site, India now has 40 sites in the UNESCO's World Heritage list (32 cultural, seven natural and one mixed). Dholavira is the first site of the ....
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