Photo: Kk himalaya · Public domainThe oldest ploughed field yet excavated anywhere, with its furrows still visible in a grid.
Two sets of furrows cross at right angles. One set runs east–west about 30 cm apart; the other runs north–south nearly 2 m apart. Farmers of the same district still plough this way to sow two crops in one field, a tall one in the wide rows and a short one in the narrow.
It shows the plough in use on the Sarasvati plain nearly five thousand years ago, and a farming habit that has not changed since.
ExcavationHundreds of sandstone shelters where people lived and painted for thousands of years, the oldest gallery of human art in Bharat.
ExcavationEleven molar crowns from nine adults with neat holes drilled into them, the earliest evidence of dentistry on living people anywhere.
ExcavationA Sarasvati-valley settlement whose levels run from Hakra ware pit-dwellings up to a mature Harappan town, and whose earliest dates are argued over.
ExcavationA Harappan city in a dry land that lived by catching every drop: dams on two seasonal streams fed a chain of reservoirs cut into the rock around the town.
ExcavationThe first city of the civilisation to be dug, which gave its name to the whole culture.
ExcavationThe largest city of the Sindhu valley, laid out in a grid of baked-brick streets with covered drains and a great bath on its citadel.
ExcavationRows of small clay-lined fire pits on raised brick platforms, with a well and bathing floors beside them.
ExcavationA small steatite seal of a figure seated in a yogic posture, wearing a horned headdress and surrounded by animals, whom many see as Pashupati, Lord of creatures.
