indus valley word puzzles

Indus Valley Sites

Ancient City of the Indus Valley

Indus Valley Sites

Can you find the names of nine settlement sites in the Indus Valley?  Some were discovered only recently.

A O O G I F X Z H B Z L E S W 
R L R Z D H A R A P P A P K I 
D A A A T H R V N P A H K X K 
Y G D W D T O A U G I T F R V 
Y J O O I U D L G Q O O Q N Q 
I N J L T R N M A I G L R V Y 
N Z N M A P E A A V H Z F L Q 
Z Z E E Q D G W H T I K T W P 
C J H G D R A G N C Z R A Z W 
Q J O H W B K R Z A A J A R W 
X S M D B Y T S O Y G R J D V 
V P P N T F U X D I N D E K Z 
U Q G Z I O S B B A T U E Y P 
O E F J V U L S B Q P G Q O A 
P B F P N G U L M H H L F E S 

CHANUDARO	DHOLAVIRA		GANWERIWALA	GOLADARO		LOTHAL
	
MOHENJODARO	RAKHIGARHI		SUTKAGENDOR	HARAPPA	

Indus Valley Sites Solution

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(Over,Down,Direction) 
CHANUDARO(10,9,NW)
DHOLAVIRA(5,2,SE)
GANWERIWALA(11,11,NW)
GOLADARO(2,4,SE)
HARAPPA(6,2,E)
LOTHAL(12,6,N)
MOHENJODARO(3,11,N)
RAKHIGARHI(14,10,NW)
SUTKAGENDOR(7,13,N)

Ancient City of the Indus Valley

Use words archeologists might use when they are in the Indus Valley to solve this puzzle and find the name of an ancient Indus Valley city.


Unscramble each of the clue words.
Take the letters that appear in boxes and unscramble them for the name of the ancient Indus Valley city.

(Solution:  From top down the words are terracotta, settlement, civilization, artifact, citadel, pictogram, ideogram and figurine)