Bhirrana

Bhirrana Archeological site
Bhirrana is located in Haryana
Bhirrana
Shown within Haryana
Bhirrana is located in India
Bhirrana
Bhirrana (India)
LocationHaryana, India
Coordinates29°33′15″N 75°32′55″E / 29.55417°N 75.54861°E / 29.55417; 75.54861
Length190 m (620 ft)
Width240 m (790 ft)
History
FoundedApproximately 8th-7th m. BCE[1][2][3][4]
AbandonedApproximately 2600 BCE[1][2][3][4]
PeriodsHakra Wares to Mature Harappan
CulturesHakra Ware culture, Indus Valley civilization
Site notes
Excavation dates2003–2006

Bhirrana, also Bhirdana and Birhana, (IAST: Bhirḍāna) is an archaeological site, located in a small village in the Fatehabad district of the north Indian state of Haryana.[web 1][5][web 2] Bhirrana's earliest archaeological layers predates the Indus Valley civilisation times, dating to the 8th-7th millennium BCE. [2][1][6][3][4][web 2] The site is one of the many sites seen along the channels of the seasonal Ghaggar river,[7][4] identified by ASI archeologists to be the Rigvedic Saraswati river.[web 2][4]


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