KALIBANGAN EXPEDITION 2026

AINCERT Ghaggar-Hakra Expedition 2026  Kalibangan

Date: 1 July 2026

Venue: Kalibangan, Hanumangarh District, Rajasthan

Organiser: AINCERT

Description: AINCERT Founder President Ujjwal BU Pant visited Kalibangan, one of the most archaeologically significant sites in India, located on the dried bed of the Ghaghar river in Hanumangarh district of Rajasthan. The name Kalibangan means black bangles in Hindi, referring to the terracotta bangles local villagers had long collected from the surface. Excavated by the ASI under B.B. Lal and B.K. Thapar between 1960 and 1969, Kalibangan revealed a twin-mound site with a citadel mound (KLB-1) to the west and a lower city (KLB-2) to the east, with a third mound (KLB-3) further east. The most remarkable finding at Kalibangan is the world's earliest ploughed field, preserved beneath the Early Harappan levels in a criss-cross furrow pattern dated to approximately 2800 BCE, identical to an inter-cropping technique still practised in the Hanumangarh region today. The site also yielded fire altars, sophisticated pottery, copper antiquities, seals, stone measurement devices including pan balances, terracotta objects, and a burial reconstruction, all housed in the ASI museum at Pilibanga. During the AINCERT visit, Shri Chandra Prakash Upadhyay, Assistant Archaeologist of the Archaeological Survey of India, observed the systematic field documentation on CCTV, reviewed the AINCERT research papers on-site, and formally recognised Ujjwal BU Pant as an archaeologist, stating this is extraordinary material and that he had never seen such work at that age in his entire career. Shri Upadhyay had personally visited almost all major IVC sites across India. His recognition is permanently recorded in the AINCERT Kalibangan Research Paper. The visit produced 23 field photographs and a complete research paper.