We are pleased to open the brand new 104 slide section 1924-25: A Lost City Emerges by Dr. Sudeshna Guha which puts back together a pivotal excavation season at Harappa through photographs and text. This was the first season at the site, again led by Daya Ram Sahni, after Sir John Marshall's announcement in September 1924 of the discovery of the ancient Indus civilization following the last few years of work at Harappa and Mohenjo-daro.

Dr. Guha has taken the original photographs made during Sahni's excavations and attached his and Madho Sarup Vats original texts for the Archaeological Survey of India reports and later book on the Harappa excavations. As Dr. Guha writes, "The excavations of 1924-25 at Harappa proved to be a milestone in revealing some of this Bronze Age city’s unique features. Among them, the area of Parallel Walls in Mound F was subsequently identified, provisionally, and mistakenly, as the Great Granary (see Vats 1940, especially pp. 17-20), and the evidence of large scale funerary practices which Sahni hypothesized from his excavations at area B of Mound AB."

For the first time, the results of this exciting season are available online to the wider public, with photographs hardly seen for a century together with relevant texts from the Indian archaeologists at the site whose contributions are often overlooked.

Read Dr. Guha's introduction essay The 3rd Season at Harappa led by Daya Ram Sahni 1924-25.

Enjoy the 104 slide section 1924-25: A Lost City Emerges.

Image: Daya Ram Sahni on Mound AB at Harappa 1924-25 Season