• Street of 9m width divided the city in 12 blocks each of 365m x 244m.

• Layout of street was based on grid-iron pattern.

• Series of houses were arranged around open-to-sky central court.
• They dependent fully on ventilation and roof lighting.
• Houses with G+1 storey made of kiln-brick with complete bathing
establishment.
• It had a Great bath of 7m width, 12m length and 2.4m depth
made of bricks at bottom and
• bathing forming part of Hindu temple.
• The Harappan civilization was located in the Indus River valley
• This is the first site to be excavated in the Indus Valley
Civilization.
• The Indus River Valley Civilization, also known as Harappan
civilization, developed the first accurate system of
standardized weights and measures, some as accurate as to
1.6 mm.
• Harappans created sculpture, seals, pottery, and jewelry from
materials, such as terracotta, metal, and stone.
 • Mohenjo-Daro had a public bath worked by an indigenous
hydraulic system. (This is a system of force applying at one
point is transmitted to another point using an
incompressible fluid).

A Bearded Head in stone was recovered

from Mohenjo-Daro.
• Kalibangan was excavated in the year 1960.
• This is located on the southern banks of the river Ghaggar.
• Kalibangan is distinguished by its unique fire altars and "world's earliest attested
ploughed field".
• It is around 2900 BC that the region of Kalibangan developed into what can be
considered a planned city.
• Kalibangan excavations have unearthed Harappan seals, unknown scripts,
stamps, human skeletons, copper bangles, coins, beads, toys, terracotta and
shells.