Dholavira
How did a Bronze Age community with only hand tools survive for well over a millennium on a parched salt-desert island by engineering one of the world's earliest city-scale water systems - and why, after all that ingenuity, was Dholavira eventually abandoned?
c. 3000-1450 BCE (Harappan) · Khadir Bet, Kutch district, Gujarat, IndiaAdded July 2026