The Harappan city of Dholavira is located on the Tropic of Cancer, in Gujarat’s Kutch district. Now what’s left of the ancient city is all in ruins but it is in those ruins that we can see how Dholavira was once an important part of the great Indus Valley Civilisation.
Source: This city became India’s latest and the 40th UNESCO World Heritage Site
Ever since the discovery by Joshi, there had been much excitement and speculations among the archeologists about the site, and the 90s excavations revealed many new aspects of this ancient urban centre that easily placed it among the “most exciting discoveries of the past half century” (Allchins, Origins of a Civilization, 1997).
Here is the list of 40 Indian sites of UNESCO World heritage tags.
Dholavira, a Harappan-era metropolis in the Kutch region of Gujarat, earned the coveted Unesco World Heritage Site (WHS) tag on Tuesday, ending an eight-year wait.
Source: Photos: Gujarat’s jewel Dholavira gets World Heritage Site tag | The Times of India
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