Alamgirpur

Alamgirpur, in Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh, is an Indus Valley Civilisation site in the Ganga–Yamuna Doab and the easternmost of its known settlements. The Archaeological Survey of India partly excavated it in 1958 and 1959, and the discovery pushed the known reach of the Harappan culture much further east.

The excavators found four cultural periods with gaps between them: Harappan, Painted Grey Ware, early historical and late medieval. The earliest layer, about 6 feet thick, has been dated to around 2600–2200 BC. Kiln-fired bricks turned up, though no buildings of that period, and the site appears to have been a pottery workshop. Finds include typical Harappan pottery, roof tiles, dishes, cups and vases, dice, terracotta carts and figures of a humped bull and a snake, and beads of faience, carnelian, agate and jasper. There was also a broken copper blade, a small terracotta bead coated with gold, and cloth impressions showing a fine plain weave.