Maps, Figures and Drawings of Harappa from Madho Sarup Vats Excavations at Harappa, 1940.

These were the first comprehensive plans of the mounds at Harappa and the excavations from 1921-1940 since Sir Alexander Cunningham's 1873 sketch. In red they show the different trenches that were dug during those years, and remind us of how much of the site remains unexcavated.

1. The Prehistoric Site of Harappa

"As already stated, the principal mounds form a rough parallelogram. designated AB, E, and the one occupied by the present town are higher and larger than Mounds F, D and the Thana Mound."
Letter Map 2. Harappa Comparative Chronology (1940)

"The number of strata varies considerably in different mounds which are not all contemporary with each other. In the present state of our knowledge their dating can hardly be definite. At best it must be rough and provisional, with a fair margin for error when accounting for the upper and lower limits of the culture1 at Harappa as revealed up till now. On the basis of the evidence regarding the chronology of Mohenjo-daro, which has been so ably discussed Comparative by Sir John Marshall,2 I tabulate below the tentative and comparative age of Mounds F, AB, Areas J and G, and of the Cemetery H.
3. Mound F Harappa Site Map

"Six large trenches have been sunk in this mound, viz., three to the west and three to the east of the central belt.

4. Mound AB

"Due south of Mound F, and across the village road going west to the hamlet the highest of all the mounds at Harappa of Hafiz Bullah, stands Mound AB—(PI. I).