HOW DID CHARLES MASSON DISCOVER THE RUIN AND HARAPPA SUMMARISE THE SERIES OF EVENT?
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During many years of wandering, he stumbled on the ruins at Harappa in the late 1820's. He became the first European to report their existence in his book Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan and The Panjab (London, Richard Bentley,1842).
Masson is best known as a numismatist whose unearthing of various coins provided the first new clues to the Bactrian Greek and Kushan Empires which once ruled Afghanistan and Punjab. His desertion was ultimately forgiven. He played some intelligence role until falling out again with his superiors over the conquest of Kalat in Baluchistan.
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arles Masson was a deserter from the East India Company's Bengal Artillery. One day in 1827 he suddenly left his regiment at Agra with a fellow soldier. They headed west, towards the Indus River and lands not yet under British control.
During many years of wandering, he stumbled on the ruins at Harappa in the late 1820's. He became the first European to report their existence in his book Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan and The Panjab (London, Richard Bentley,1842).
Masson is best known as a numismatist whose unearthing of various coins provided the first new clues to the Bactrian Greek and Kushan Empires which once ruled Afghanistan and Punjab. His desertion was ultimately forgiven. He played some intelligence role until falling out again with his superiors over the conquest of Kalat in Baluc