how do we know Harappan people used bricks
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⭕️✨Harappa is in modern day Pakistan. This site was accidentally discovered. The East India Company was doing the construction of railway lines in 1856. Initially, the construction workers thought the ruins to be of some ordinary old city. The bricks from the site were used for the construction. It was about 80 years ago that archaeologists could realize that it was an ancient city.
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The Indus Valley held cities and towns that shared unique building strategies throughout their survival in history. The people of the civilisation were extremely intelligent and advanced for their time, learning quickly the uses of different building materials and tools, and the best structural layouts for the towns. Homes and public buildings seemed almost luxurious for their time, having a sophisticated plumbing setup and being multi-levelled. Functional and hygienic building plans were mostly consistent through the generations and kept the civilisation alive and in no apparent crisis with housing its people.
The Indus Valley people had well-built, well organised town planning. Towns were rectangular, with straight walls all facing north, south, east or west, and straight streets that formed a pattern like a grid and divided the city into block sections. The centre of a city often held a simple citadel, a mound-like stronghold, where the people would go to for protection if ever under attack.
Housing in the Valley was adequate and architecturally simple, yet outstanding. From one to two to three storeys, whether in the lower or higher part of town, houses contained these following features. Every household had continuous access to clean water from nearby wells and drainage facilities, including plumbing. The Indus Valley civilisation is thought to be the first with an urban sanitation system, again very advanced for their time. There was a bathing room, and sometimes individual rooms for each person. All houses in a town were identical, and built together in courtyards. Connecting upper levels to lower levels were sets of brick stairs or sometimes ladders. The majority of houses were spacious and had flat roofs; however in poorer regions some houses had no roof at all and were exposed to all the weather.
The sewers were brick-lined and found under the streets of the town. Mohenjo-Daro had the best sewerage system, which has remained intact for us to analyse today. The pipes were made of baked clay and ran all the way to the houses, taking waste from the bathrooms to the sewers. The sewers drained into nearby rivers.
The Great Granary is a mystery to today’s historians as to what its function was. Was it actually used to hold grains? Historians have been unable to find evidence to suggest that grains were once held there. It was thought to have been used as a place for farmers to store their crops, carts to load and unload, or even possibly as a temple. This massive building is made of wood on brick foundations and is over 60m long, with 6 large halls and arching doorways. The Great Granary is one of the significant buildings of the civilisation found in Mohenjo-Daro, along with the Great Bath.