![]() Every few years or floods would ravage the village. However, the small trading town of Lothal had a natural nemesis: floods. Between 2,450 BCE to 2,350 BCE, it was a small dock that could house small boats. It exported beautiful beads from the Narmada valley, cotton, timber, and ivory in return for baser metals, wool, and cosmetics. The thousands of miles of the sea were the bridge that connected Indian, Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and Sumerian cultures. The Indian Ocean was perhaps the ocean to be explored for trade purposes. The town developed several local industries to fulfill the needs of Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Sumerian cultures. Overseas trade was a vital driver of the prosperity of Lothal. It is situated 80 KMs southwest of Ahmedabad. Lothal sits in the Gulf of Cambay, near where the Sabarmati river system meets the Arabian Sea. ![]() There is evidence that Pre-Harappan cultures occupied the region, and around 2,700–2,400 years ago, they amalgamated into the prosperous Harappan civilization. The town of Lothal, along with Dholavira, was one of the southernmost points of this civilization. Over the next two millennia, it spread around the region in all directions, from Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro, and Rakhigadi to today’s western Uttar Pradesh in the West and Dholavira in the south. Around 6,000 years ago, a nascent civilization emerged on the banks of the Sindhu and the Saraswati rivers. ![]()
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