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The British were laying the railway line connecting the cities of Karachi and Lahore in 1856. The labourers once ran out of bricks and used baked bricks from some ancient ruins near the railway lines. These bricks were used to make 93 miles of railway track. It was only discovered later that these bricks were almost 5000 years old. Alexander Cunningham, the director of the Archaeological Survey of India visited this place, Harappa in 1872. He found stone tools, seals and pottery of an ancient civilisation. Also, nearby was a mound called "Mohenjo-Daro", meaning 'mound of the dead'. Often children playing there found articles like bangles, dices, broken clay toys etc. It was suspected that this place was once inhabited by people. Excavations were started there and initially two cities were discovered, Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. These were called the Indus Valley Civilisation.
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