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Harappa
Harappa is an archaeological site in Punjab, Pakistan, near a former course of the Ravi River, the remains of a major city of the Indus Valley Civilisation. Settled from about 3300 BCE, it was at its largest in the Mature Harappan phase, about 2600–1900 BCE, covering some 150 hectares. The first site of the civilisation excavated by the Archaeological Survey of India, it gave the civilisation its other name, Harappan. In 1857 railway builders took bricks from its ruins as ballast for the Lahore–Multan line.
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