Passage on Harappan civilization:origin, extent, urban planning
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The urban culture of the Bronze Age found in Harappa in Pakistani Punjab was a path-breaking discovery.
In 1853, A. Cunningham, the British engineer who became a great excavator and explorer, noticed a Harappan seal.
Though the seal showed a bull and six written letters, he did not realize its significance. Much later, in 1921, the potentiality of the site of Harappa was appreciated when an Indian archeologist, Daya Ram Sahni, started excavating it.
At about the same time, R.D. Banerjee, a historian, excavated the site of Mohenjo-daro in Sindh. Both discovered pottery and other antiquities indicative of a developed civilization.