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Harappa

American  
[huh-rap-uh] / həˈræp ə /

noun

  1. a village in Pakistan: site of successive cities of the Indus valley civilization.

  2. a Bronze Age culture that flourished in the Indus valley.


Harappa British  
/ həˈræpə /

noun

  1. an ancient city in the Punjab in NW Pakistan: one of the centres of the Indus civilization that flourished from 2500 to 1700 bc ; probably destroyed by Indo-European invaders

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Three seals from Banerjee's excavation bore images and scripts similar to those from Harappa in the Punjab province in present-day Pakistan.

From BBC Apr. 18, 2025

The archaeological sites of Harappa in the north and Mohenjo-Daro in the south have received the most study of all the Indus valley cities and remain the best known.

From Textbooks Apr. 19, 2023

Because Harappa was the first major site discovered by archaeologists, the term Harappan often appears as a synonym for Indus valley civilization.

From Textbooks Apr. 19, 2023

But mostly, they celebrated the building of a new, scientific highway to Harappa.

From BBC Jun. 21, 2016

Long before the first pyramids were built in Egypt, the ancient Sumerians traded with the people of Harappa and Mohenjo Daro, who lived along the Indus River.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

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