Banawali

Banawali, earlier called Vanavali, is an Indus Valley civilisation site in Fatehabad district, Haryana, about 16 kilometres from Fatehabad and some 120 kilometres north-east of Kalibangan. It lies on the left bank of a dried-up river identified as the Sarasvati, in its upper middle valley.

R.S. Bisht of the Archaeological Survey of India excavated it in 1974 and found three main phases. A pre-Harappan settlement of 2500–2300 BCE had planned houses of moulded, kiln-fired brick. The mature Harappan town that followed, until about 1700 BCE, was fortified, measuring 200 by 500 metres and divided into separate sectors for rulers and common people, with a defence wall over 105 metres long. Streets met at right angles, and houses had rammed earth floors, kitchens, toilets and storerooms. A later post-Harappan Bara culture phase ran to about 1500 BCE.