Dholavira (Gujarati: ધોળાવીરા) is an archaeological site at Khadirbet in Bhachau Taluka of Kutch District, in the state of Gujarat in western India, which...

functioned as a barrier against floods. Ruins like Mohenjo-Daro in Sindh and Dholavira in Gujarat had settlements with some of the ancient world's most sophisticated...

connectivity within the region and support tourism, especially to the Dholavira site, a UNESCO World Heritage Site as of 2021.In the run-up to the G-20...

the breeding field of the flamingoes, is the ancient excavated city of Dholavira from the Harappan civilization, attracting archeologists from all over...

have settled in the Rann of Kutch around 3500 BCE. The Indus city of Dholavira, the largest Indus site in India, is located in the Rann of Kutch. This...

particularly as the site of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization city of Dholavira, also a UNESCO world heritage site. The term "Khadir" is derived from...

parks, educational institute, hotels and resort. It will also recreate Dholavira and Lothal cities in the complex. The NMHC is being constructed near Lothal...

Ganeriwala in the Cholistan Desert, Dholavira in western Gujarat (declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2021 as "Dholavira: A Harappan City"), and Rakhigarhi...

amateur geologist from Gujarat who discovered the Indus valley site of Dholavira in the early 1960s. During the Kutch famine in 1960s, Shambhudan Gadhvi...

beads are identical with beads found in the Indus Civilization site of Dholavira. Egyptian necklace with biconical carnelian beads, rolled strips of sheet...

and western India. Centred around cities such as Mohenjo-daro, Harappa, Dholavira, and Kalibangan, and relying on varied forms of subsistence, the civilisation...

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1932) is an Indian archaeologist who discovered the Indus Valley sites of Dholavira and Surkotada. Joshi served as the Director General of the Archaeological...

discoveries at Dholavira was made in one of the side rooms of the northern gateway of the city, and is generally known as the Dholavira Signboard. The...

dams, such as Sadd-el-Kafara Dam for flood control. In modern-day India, Dholavira had an intricate water-management system with 16 reservoirs and dams....

state). The most important sites are Lothal (the world's first dry dock), Dholavira (the fifth largest site), and Gola Dhoro (where 5 uncommon seals were...

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of the Indus Valley Civilisation. Oxford University Press. 1998 "Will Dholavira ruins rewrite history of ancient theatre? by Robin David". The Times of...

Harappan Town-Planning, Proportions and Units, with Special Reference to Dholavira" (PDF). Man and Environment. 33 (1): 66–79. Archived from the original...

Saurashtra. They included cities like Harappa, Mohenjo-daro, Kalibangan, Dholavira, ports like Lothal, Sutkagen-dor and Sokhta Koh and numerous villages...

to reservoirs of the cities of the Indus Valley civilization such as Dholavira and Mohenjo-daro. The stepwells were constructed in the south western...

1954 and 1958, more than 50 sites were excavated in the Kutch (notably Dholavira), and Saurashtra peninsulas, extending the limits of Harappan civilisation...

which had ghats for transporting goods for trade, via Lothal port and Dholavira, as far as Mesopotamia (ancient cities of Elam and Sumer). India portal...

DeshGujarat (8 December 2023). "Yadubir Singh Rawat appointed as DG of ASI ; Dholavira, Vadnagar among his excavations". DeshGujarat. Retrieved 19 December 2023...

control of prime agricultural land. The fortification varies by site. While Dholavira has stone-built fortification walls, Harrapa is fortified using baked...

genetic testing), Mohenjo-Daro, Harappa, Farmana, Kalibangan, Lothal, Dholavira, Mehrgarh, Banawali, Alamgirpur and Chanhudaro . Wider context of the...

A sequence of Indus characters from the northern gate of Dholavira, dubbed the Dholavira Signboard...

secretly control the horses. While the chariot race sequence was shot in Dholavira, the sequence in which the chariot sinks in quicksand was shot at a set...

forms of stepwell and reservoir were also built in India in places like Dholavira as far back as the Indus Valley civilisation. This baoli, with 108 steps...

also yielded an Apsidal plan which has been interpreted as a temple. At Dholavira, possible funerary architecture was found surrounding a dried up lake...