Lothal
Lothal is an archeological site Indian discovered in 1954 and tonic at 4500 years. It was then an important port of the Civilization of the valley of Indus in the Indian Sous-continent and probably more in the south of its outposts.
Lothal is located in the Indian State Goujerat, to approximately 80 km in the south-west of Ahmadâbâd, at the bottom of the Golfe of Cambay.
The city was a prosperous center of 2440 av. J. - C. with 1900 av. J. - C., period when it belonged to the age of Indus, it survived then like centers settlement to the XVI E, but during this last period, it was to be invested by a local tribe which would have settled in the walls.
As for the other cities of the age of Indus, Lothal benefits from a considered architecture and a town planning. The excavations showed that the city was organized in two parts: the high part where lived the leaders and notable and the low part where the small people lived.
The whole city benefitted from a drainage system from waste water, paved streets, well and of a part of bath in each house, of which some were comprised two or three levels and were built on a platform to protect them from the rise of water.
The most remarkable part of Lothal was its basin of 214 m out of 36 m and 13 m of depth, which offered an accosting for the commercial boats. A channel in north connected it to the navigable river. Close to the quay warehouses for the storage of the cargoes brought by the boats were.
Lothal was an active center of exchanges with the Mésopotamie, the Egypt and the Perse. One finds on the site a factory where pearls of various matters, certainly tiny were manufactured, and which were to enjoy a certain notoriety. The pottery was another prosperous industry. The ruins of a furnace bridge suggest that the inhabitants of Lothal adored the gods of fire and the sea.
The system of weights and measures of Indus was of use with Lothal. The bricks were of a standard report/ratio 100×50×25, and a Decimal system was employed to measure the lengths.
External bonds
- Photographs of the archaeological city of Lothal on the site of Harappa.com
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