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Lothal dockyard today. Credit: Orissa8 / Wikimedia Commons Recently, a landscape approach has been adopted to reexamine the dockyard theory, using multispectral and multitemporal satellite data, ...
Set in the dried river bed, along a silted bed of the channel (where occasional) tidal water can still be seen, in the archaeological site of Lothal the typical heirarchial town planning systems and ...
Debate over the nature of a 250-meter-long rectangular basin lined with burnt bricks, located at the mouth of the Gulf of Khambhat might finally be wrapping up. Lothal (‘the mound of the dead ...
Lothal, an ancient dockyard, now part of a comprehensive town development plan with nearby villages. AUDA and GTPCL lead the project, focusing on preserving the Harappan heritage site and ...
The city was strategically situated along the coast and had a dockyard, suggesting that it was a major hub for maritime trade. Archaeological findings at Lothal include well-planned streets ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said his government's decision to build a national maritime heritage complex in Gujarat's Lothal, considered the world's oldest dockyard, is aimed at ...