Did you know that Harappa was not the first site discovered in SSVC (Sindhu-Saraswati Valley Civilization)?
What we call Indus Valley Civilization today should have been named the Sindhu Saraswati Valley Civilization & the core of it should have been Kalibangan NOT Harappa. Italian scholar L.P. Tessitori found evidence of it in Kalibangan in 1917, a full 7 years BEFORE discovery of Harappa.
Shockingly, Tessitori's findings reveal that in 1900, British engineer Warren was constructing a section of the Jodhpur-Bikaner Railway. He ruthlessly dug up ancient bricks & terracotta artifacts from 2 large mounds of Kalibangan, which were smashed into gravel for the tracks!
Thankfully Tessitori was curious enough to dig himself at the site. What he found was incredible - pottery, terracotta cakes, beads, bangles, brick platforms, burial urns, vases, charred bones, tiles, rings, perforated jars, bull figurines, disc beads, buttons & copper objects!
Though he had no idea how old the artifacts were, Tessitori was dedicated & recorded all the evidence. Yet, inexplicably Kalibangan was IGNORED by ASI's Marshall & in 1923-24 the lies of Pakistan as the cradle of "Indus Valley civilization" with type site Harappa was born.
In December 1947, Hungarian British archaeologist Aurel Stein surveyed the area & read Tessitori's records, but reported there were no remains of Chalcolithic period. Stein who was fascinated with finding Greco-Buddhist traces of Alexander just didn't find Kalibangan worthy enough.
It was only after 1951, 4 years after Partition, that A. Ghosh carried out systematic explorations in the region & found 25 mounds of "Harappan culture" of which Kalibangan stood out for its twin mound complex, which resembled the urban structures of Mohenjodaro & Harappa.
If the Kalibangan evidence of Tessitori in 1919 had been explored, we would call it Saraswati Valley Civilization today with a crucial extra detail, Kalibangan not only has all the elements of advanced urban design, plumbing, etc. but Fire altars in a ritual citadel & within homes too. Radiocarbon dating by ASI has verified that Kalibangan dates back to 3000 BCE.
Had Kalibangan been excavated thoroughly in 1920s, it would have been clear that the rituals of Vedic civilization were already an integral part of the SSC culture, & undermined the British lies of a mythical Aryan Invasion theory that has plagued Hindu history for far too long