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Lothal town planning ppt
1. LOTHAL
“Mound of the Dead”
Presentation By :- Sachin Shah
( U11CE072)
Chirag Prajapati
(U11CE073)
2. • 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).
LOTHAL 2
3. 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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4. • Lothal means mound of the dead in Gujarati.
• Once a sleepy pottery village,Lothal rumbed awake to
become a flourishing centre of trade & Industry,famous
for 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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5. • 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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