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Excavation History. Rai Bahadur Daya Ram Sahni (1879-1939) was a pivotal figure in the discovery of Harappa, familiar with the mysterious seals and earlier archaeologist and scholar's visits to the site. It was Sahni who, after a three-day visit in February 1917 began the process that led to his first excavations there in January 1921.
Daya Ram Sahni, 1917. Rai Bahadur Daya Ram Sahni [1879-1939), born in Bhera, Sarghoda District, Punjab was a pivotal figure in the discovery of Harappa, familiar with the mysterious seals and earlier visits to the site. It was Sahni who, after a 3-day visit in February 1917, took up Hargreaves suggestion that the promising mounds be purchased ...
The first extensive excavations at Harappa were started by Rai Bahadur Daya Ram Sahni in 1920. His work and contemporaneous excavations at Mohenjo-daro first brought to the world's attention the existence of the forgotten Indus Valley civilization as the earliest urban culture in the Indian subcontinent.
Rai Bahadur Daya Ram Sahni was an Indian archaeologist who supervised the excavation of the Indus valley site at Harappa in 1921-22. Sahni was a trainee of John Marshall. He became the first Indian to be appointed Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India, a position in which he served till 1935.
The Indus discovery was the work of many individuals: the collector-traveller Charles Masson, who first described Harappa; Alexander Cunningham, the archaeological pioneer and Harappa´s first excavator; Daya Ram Sahni, Rakhaldas Banerji, and Madho Sarup Vats, the discerning diggers who uncovered Harappa and Mohenjodaro; Luigi Pio Tessitori ...
12 de dic. de 2018 · The Indus Valley Civilization that flourished along the river Indus in north-western India (3000 B.C.E. and 1500 B.C.E.) was the largest and the most advanced in the ancient world, with a high level of technological sophistication.
