INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Lothal had the world’s earliest known dock, which connected the city to an ancient course of the Sabarmati River on the trade route between Harappan cities in Sindh and the peninsula of Saurashtra.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lothal provides with the largest collection of antiquities in the archaeology of modern India. It is essentially a single culture site-the Harappan culture in all its variances is evidenced.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lothal is famous for the discovery of several ruins of Indus Valley Civilization. Excavation was carried out at Lothal between 1955 and 1962.

Detailed explanation-4: -Lothal’s dock connected the city to the Sabarmati river which was an important trade route between Harappan cities in Sindh (now in Pakistan) and the peninsula of Saurashtra. At that time, the surrounding Kutch desert of was a part of the Arabian Sea. The dock is roughly 200 meters long and about 35 meters wide.

Detailed explanation-5: -The excavated site of Lothal is the only port-town of the Indus Valley Civilisation. A metropolis with an upper and a lower town had in on its northern side a basin with vertical wall, inlet and outlet channels which has been identified as a tidal dockyard.