{"id":22204,"date":"2025-01-25T11:10:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T05:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22204"},"modified":"2025-04-06T18:07:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T12:37:56","slug":"key-facts-about-rakhigarhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-rakhigarhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Rakhigarhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Rakhigarhi<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Rakhigarhi is an <strong>archaeological site l<\/strong>ocated in Hisar district, <strong>Haryana<\/strong>, in the <strong>Ghaggar-Hakra river plain.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is on<strong>e of the oldest and largest cities of<\/strong> the subcontinent\u2019s earliest known Bronze Age urban culture, the <strong>Indus Valley or Harappan Civilization<\/strong>, going back to about 6500 BCE.<\/li>\n<li>Rakhigarhi constitutes <strong>one of the only two cities of the Harappan Era<\/strong> (6th millennium\u20131900 BC) situated <strong>within India\u2019s <\/strong>current p<strong>olitical boundary, the other being Dholavira in Gujarat.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The site was first discovered in the 1960s by the Archeological Survey of India.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Findings<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The exploration around this site has clearly identified seven archaeological mounds spread over an area of approximately 350 ha.<\/li>\n<li>Rakhigarhi primarily yields <strong>evidence of occupation during the Early and Mature Harappan periods,<\/strong> with the site being completely abandoned during the Late Harappan period.<\/li>\n<li>The archaeological excavations revealed the mature Harappan phase, represented by a <strong>planned township with mud-brick<\/strong> as well as <strong>burnt-brick houses <\/strong>with a p<strong>roper drainage system.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>ceramic industry<\/strong> is represented by red ware, which included dish-on-stand, vase, jar, bowl, beaker, perforated jar, goblet, and handis.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Animal sacrificial pits<\/strong> lined with mud bricks and triangular and circular fire alters on the mud floor have also been excavated, that signifies the ritual system of the Harappans.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>A<strong> cylindrical seal<\/strong> with five Harappan characters on one side and a symbol of an alligator on the other is an important find from this site.<\/li>\n<li>Other antiquities include blades; <strong>terracotta and shell bangles; <\/strong>beads of semi-precious stones, terracotta, shell and copper objects; animal figurines, toy cart frame and wheel of terracotta; bone points; inscribed steatite seals, and sealings.<\/li>\n<li>The excavations have yielded a few <strong>extended burials, <\/strong>which certainly belong to a very late stage, maybe the medieval times.<\/li>\n<li>Rakhigarhi is also well-known as the <strong>site which has yielded the only DNA evidence from the Harappan era.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source <\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/ground-reports\/massive-reservoir-found-at-rakhigarhi-is-giving-us-more-clues-on-saraswati-river\/2447317\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TP<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Rakhigarhi Latest FAQs<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. On which river is Rakhigarhi civilization?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Rakhigarhi is situated on the bank of the now dry, Saraswati river<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Who excavated Rakhigarhi first?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The excavation of Rakhigarhi was first conducted by Dr. V. N. Misra, an Indian archaeologist, in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. How old is Rakhigarhi?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Researchers have established that human remains discovered at an ancient site of Rakhigarhi \u2013 a village in the Hisar district of Haryana \u2013 date back around 8,000 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q4<\/strong>. What is the city of the dead in Harappan civilization?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Mohenjo-daro! Mohenjo Daro, or &#8220;Mound of the Dead&#8221; is an ancient Indus Valley Civilization city that flourished between 2600 and 1900 BCE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rakhigarhi is an archaeological site located in Hisar district, Haryana, in the Ghaggar-Hakra river plain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}