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Answer the following question?
Who discovered the Indus Valley Civilisation and when?
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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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