Harappa Museum, Punjab Province, Pakistan

5Ainny H 5:00 PM May 21, 2018

A Proud of bronze Age
Harappa, an ancient city and proud of IVC. The history of this land faded away with the passage of time. Harappa Museum is only a hope to preserve this culture and splendid history. It highlights the life of the people, who were modern in all aspects. Government must take interest and save the history in more better way. Museum is good, Well managed. But display artifacts need attention. To attract the more visitors musuem management must take some steps like provide information of the display in a lucid manner and arrnage more exhibitions.

5Hannan456 5:00 PM May 23, 2018

Harappa - the biggest city of ancient Pakistan
The ancient city of Harappa (3500 BC -1900 BC) is one of the largest archaeological sites of ancient Pakistan (Indus River Valley Civilization). Harappa since its inception has remained almost continuously occupied as a settlement for over 5500 years. It was first identified as ruins of an ancient city in 1826 by a British Army deserter, James Lewis, posing as an American engineer named Charles Masson. Later in 1831, an emissary from King William IV, namely Alexander Burnes, recorded the extensive remains at Harappa while travelling from Multan to Lahore to deliver gifts of horses from the King of England to Raja Ranjit Singh. In 1856, William Brunton a British railway engineer destroyed part of this heritage site by using 5000 year old Harappan bricks as ballast (crushed rock placed around railroad tracks) for laying 195 kilometer of railway track between Sahiwal (Montgomery) and Multan. Alexander Cunningham carried out the first series of excavations at Harappa between 1856 and 1872.However, the first extensive excavations at Harappa were started by John Marshall in 1920. At its peak (2500 BC), Harappa had a population of 50,000 to 75,000 inhabitants.