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The archaeologist to initially discover the Mohenjo-Daro site of the Indus Valley Civilization was

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Banerji (also known as Rakhal das Banerjee and Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay) was working for the Archaeological Survey of India in 1920, surveying the lower part of the Indus River valley (now part of Pakistan), when he heard reports of a buried site surmounted by a stupa, a small hemispherical structure used by Buddhist monks for meditation.
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Mansi Rai
Mansi Rai 7 years ago
R D Banerjee and Dayaram Sahni together discovered mohenjodaro
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