| AdminHistory | Wheeler was Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India from 1944 to 1948. In 1945 Wheeler carried out an excavation at Mohenjo-Daro. This city was built around 2600 BC and abandoned around 1900 BC. It was rediscovered in 1922 by Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay, an officer of the Archaeological Survey of India. The site is located in the Sind province in Pakistan.
In 1946 Wheeler also undertook an excavation at Harappa in Pakistan. Harappa, the type-site of the Indus Valley civilization, is today a large village in the Montgomery District of Punjab, 15 miles southwest of the district town. It overlies and adjoins the mounds of an ancient city. It has been subject to various excavations in the 20th century. |