LOTHAL“Mound of the Dead”

Presentation By :- Sachin Shah( U11CE072)

Chirag Prajapati (U11CE073)

• Located around 80 kilometers from Ahmedabad.• dating from 2400 BCE, Discovered in 1954.• Lothal is located between the Sabarmati river and the

Bhogavo river and is now 10 kms. up from the Gulf of Khambhat (Cambay).

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Lothal was excavated from 13 February 1955 to 19 May 1960 by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), the official Indian government agency for the preservation of ancient monuments.

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• Lothal means mound of the dead in Gujarati.

• Once a sleepy pottery village,Lothal rumbed awake to become a flourishing centre of trade & Industry,famousfor its expertly constructed system of underground sanitary drainage.

• The site is surrounded by a mud brick embankment 300 m North to South and 400 m East to West

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• The excavations show a planned city in a grid pattern

• underground drainage system, wells, brick houses with baths and fireplaces.

• Nowadays,Lothal is connected by road with all the major cities of Gujarat like Ahmedabad, Bhavnagar, Rajkot, Bhuj and Vadodara.

• It is says that this powerful civilization ends of Flood.

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LOTHAL IN GUJARAT

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