About a hundred and fifty years ago, many of these bricks were taken away by engineers. Bricks were so well made that they had seemed to have lasted for thousands of years and were laid in an interlocking pattern which made the walls strong. They made pots with beautiful black designs. Gold and silver were used to make ornaments and vessels. Copper and bronze were used to make tools, weapons, ornaments, and vessels. Harappan objects were made of stone, Shell, and metal. The citadel comprised granaries, religious buildings, public buildings, and assembly halls while the lower town was divided into rectangular sections cut by wide roads at right angles to each other. Also, the part to the east was comparatively larger but lower and the archaeologists called it ‘the lower town’. The Harappan city was divided into two or more parts of which the part to the west was smaller, however higher, known to be as a citadel. These cities were discovered around the river Indus, henceforth proving the existence of the Indus Valley Civilization. Soon after the discovery of cities like Lothal, Dholavira, Mohenjodaro, and Kalibangan have also been discovered and were come to be known as the Harappan cities or also the advent of Harappan Civilization. Harappa is known to be a 4700 years old city in the subcontinent which was discovered around the time 1920.
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