Where was the Indus Valley civilization first noticed?

At Harappa. 1826, Charles Massson thought it was the place where alexander defeated battle. Few years later Alexander Burnes visisted Harappa. 1850, Alexander Cunningham discovered some structure. read more

The Indus Valley Civilization was an ancient civilization located in what is Pakistan and northwest India today, on the fertile flood plain of the Indus River and its vicinity. Evidence of religious practices in this area date back approximately to 5500 BCE. read more

The Indus Valley Civilisation is also named the Harappan civilisation after Harappa, the first of its sites to be excavated in the 1920s, in what was then the Punjab province of British India. The discovery of Harappa, and soon afterwards Mohenjo-daro, was the culmination of work beginning in 1861 with the founding of the Archaeological Survey of India in the British Raj. read more