Shortugai
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Shortugai was an Indus civilization trading colony established about 2000 BC on the Oxus river near the lapis mines in northern Afghanistan
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. According to Sergent, "not one of the standard characteristics of the Harappan cultural complex is missing from it".

The town consists of two hills called A and B by the excavators. One of them was once the town proper, the other one the citadel. Each of them is aout 2 hectares large. Typical finds of the Indus Valley Civilization include one seal with a short inscription, clay models of cattle with cars and painted pottery.

Further reading

  • Henri-Paul Francfort
    Henri-Paul Francfort
    Henri-Paul Francfort is a French archaeologist and member of the CNRS. He is noted for his excavations at Shortugai.- Publications :...

    : Fouilles de Shortughai, Recherches sur L'Asie Centrale Protohistorique Paris: Diffusion de Boccard, 1989
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