RAKHIGARHI

Jan. 27, 2019

A Team of Indian experts in collaboration with South Korean scientists are recreating faces of five skeletal remains, dug up during the excavation of a Harappan site at Haryana’s Rakhigarhi village in Hisar. The results would be available within the next two months.

About:

Location: It is a village in Hisar District of Haryana. The site is located in the Ghaggar-Hakra river plain, some 27 km from the seasonal Ghaggar river.
Indus valley site:
- It is the site of a pre-Indus Valley Civilisation settlement going back to about 6500 BCE.
- Later, it was also part of the mature Indus Valley Civilisation, dating to 2600-1900 BCE.
- It is the largest ‘Indus Valley Civilization site’, twice the size of Mohenjo-daro, which is till now considered as the one of the two provincial capitals along with Harappa.
Endangered Heritage Sites: In May 2012, the Global Heritage Fund, declared Rakhigarhi one of the 10 most endangered heritage sites in Asia. It found out that the villagers sell the artefacts they dig out of the site and parts of site are now being encroached by private houses.