- Lothal is situated on the banks of river Bhogao
- Chanhudaro is the only IVC site to have curved bricks
- Kalibangan is the only IVC site to yield ornamental bricks, cylindrical granary and camel's bones
- The smallest IVC site Alla Dinho was discovered by Fairservice and it yields a distribution centre and
- A jewellery hoard
- Evidence of corbelled odrain in Mohenjodaro
- In Ropar we find the evidence of burial of dog along with the master
- Bruce Foote is known as "the father of Indian prehistory"
- From Nippur in Mesopotamia we find Harappan seals bearing the image of unicorn
- Evidence of horse from Surkotoda, Ropar,Lothal,Kalibangan, Rana Ghundai and Harappa
- Evidence of bones of rhinoceros from Amri
- Silver made its first appearance in IVC
- First fortified town in IVC was Ropar
- Brahui in Pakistan is the tribe believed to be the descendants of the Mohenjodaro people
- In Kalibangan and Rangpur no evidence of Mother Godess was found
- Farmana Khas is the latest Harappan site to be discovered
- Tiger seal is found at Banawali and button seal at Lothal
- Granary was the largest of all IVC buildings
- From Banawali a touchstone and a bronze chariot are found
- In Lothal doors and windows open by roads and not by lanes unlike other sites
- ‘Hakra Ware’ is found in Rakhigarhi
You can find excellent research works on IVC especially Harappa in http://www.harappa.com/har/har0.html
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