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Detailed explanation-1: -The word Lothal, like Mohenjo-daro, means the mound of the dead. Lothal is located between the Bhogavo and Sabarmati rivers near the Gulf of Khambhat in Gujarat.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lothal’s dock-the world’s earliest known-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 when the surrounding Kutch desert of today was a part of the Arabian Sea.
Detailed explanation-4: -Lothal is a port city in Gujarat, located on the banks of the Bhogava River, a right tributary of the Sabarmati River. It had the earliest known dock in the world, used mainly for trade purposes in the Indus Valley Civilization.