What is Harappa History?

The reason for the decline of the Indus Valley Civilization is still unknown. Many cite the Aryan invasion, drought, and deluge as probable reasons but none of those have been proved. Some source indicates that due to climate change, the path of the Indus river may have been changed and City could not survive without a crucial source of water.

Archaeologists first visited the Mohenjo Daro site in 1911. Several excavations occurred in the 1920s through 1931. Small probes took place in the 1930s, and subsequent digs occurred in 1950 and 1964.

The discovery of the site was very dramatic. Rakhaldas Bandopadhyay, an officer at the Archaeological Survey of India, went to Mohenjo Daro in 1919 to spot a Buddhist stupa. There, he found a flint scraper that was much older than the stupa itself. This discovery led to a large-scale excavation led by Kashinath Narayan Dikshit in 1924-25 and John Marshall in 1925-26, and the rest is history.