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Answer the following question?
Who discovered the Indus Valley Civilisation and when?
Solution
Mr. Daya Ram Sahni discovered the ruins of Harappa in 1921. Next year, in 1922 Dr. Rakhal Das Bannerjee discovered the ruins of Mohenjodaro.
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