Ropar town

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Ropar town

***** Location: India
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***** Category: Earch

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Fresh eye on Ropar Indus Valley site
Digging to resume after 56 years to examine diet & dwellings

Pakistan has been the big boy of Indus Valley excavation, Partition having gifted it both Mohenjo-daro and Harappa. India now plans to make the most of what it has been left with.

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) will dig up a site in Ropar, Punjab, where the remains of that old civilisation were first seen in independent India, in 1953, but where excavations stopped in 1955.

While Ropar (now Rupnagar) lay untouched for 56 years, US archaeologists took a deep interest in the Harappa and Mohenjo-daro sites.

Harappa has been under re-excavation since 1986 by J.M. Kenoyer of the University of Wisconsin and Madison. Mohenjo-daro, which cannot be excavated because of its high water-table, has also been extensively studied and investigated by scholars.

Ropar, in any case, cannot compete with the highly developed and well-planned cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro. Besides, constraints of space will severely limit the excavation’s scope although the ASI has better technological tools compared with the 1950s.
source : www.telegraphindia.com





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HAIKU

ਰੋਪੜ -
ਖੋਦ ਰਹੇ ਪਰਤਾਂ
ਚਾਲੀ ਸਦੀਆਂ ਦੀਆਂ

Ropar-
digging up layers
of forty ceturies

Ropar is my native town.
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has started digging up again a site in Ropar , Punjab, where the remains of the old civilisation were first seen in independent India, in 1953, but where excavations stopped in 1955. Ropar is a place where six cultural periods had thrived, from the Harappan period to the rule of the Guptas.
Archaeologists believe that the Harappans lived at the Ropar site till about 2,000 BC. Why and in what circumstances they left it remains a mystery.

Surmeet Maavi
Joys of Japan


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