Walls

Detail view of a hollow area that would originally have held a wooden beam bonded into the baked brick structure. In the background is a wall remnant from the later rebuilding of the "granary". >

Deposits of building debris and household rubbish were discarded over the perimeter wall into the open area below and were retained by the curtain wall. This infilling probably took place toward the end of Period 3B when the perimeter wall was being… >

Individual rooms are 15 by 6 meters long, and have sleeper walls for airspace between them. At each end of the rooms are three raised platforms. >

View of three thinner and three stouter walls. For Sahni’s description of the excavations at this area see ARASI 1924-25, p. 76. NOTES: 1. Photographs Parallel Walls, 60, Parallel Walls, Block of Parallel Walls 2, Block of Parallel… >

The high mound at Harappa (Mound AB) is surrounded by a massive mud brick city wall with large square ramparts. One of these eroding ramparts is visible through the underbrush that now covers the site. The flags mark the tomb of a Muslim saint that … >

Hollow baked brick buttresses were later built up against the original "granary" structure on top of a shallow mud-brick platform [400] that itself overlies the mud-brick platform of the original "granary". Below these platforms is baked brick wall … >

Ashy debris deposits continued to accumulate outside of the perimeter wall, covering the curtain wall. These date to the end of Harappa Period 3B and the beginning of Period 3C. The area continued to be devoid of structures, although what later rema… >

The mounds at Harappa remain largely unexcavated. Approximately half a percentage of the site's area was unearthed each season by the Harappa Archaeological Research Project (HARP) in the 1990s. >

A view of a part of the area of Parallel walls, Mound F, possibly before deep digging. One thinner wall is exposed, and traces of the others visible. NOTE: Photos Block of Parallel Walls, Block of Parallel Walls and Harappa Walls are of the area … >

Clearing the ancient Harappan debris from the eroded surface outside of the mud brick city wall at the eastern edge of Mound E. In 1997 this area of Trench 11 was cleared to define the stratigraphic sequence between Period 3B and 3C. It was possible… >