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Engineers first stumbled upon the site of Harappa while laying:
ARailway lines
BCanal channels
CHighway roads
DTelegraph lines
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Railway lines
1. They carried off bricks for the tracks.
2. Railway building in Punjab revealed Harappa.
3. Archaeologists recognised the city about eighty years ago.
_Source: NCERT Class 6 Our Pasts I, Chapter 3, In the Earliest Cities._
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