<P> The ruins of the city remained undocumented for around 3,700 years until R.D. Banerji , an officer of the Archaeological Survey of India , visited the site in 1919 -- 20 , identifying the Buddhist stupa ( 150 -- 500 CE ) known to be there and finding a flint scraper which convinced him of the site 's antiquity . This led to large - scale excavations of Mohenjo - daro led by Kashinath Narayan Dikshit in 1924 -- 25 , and John Marshall in 1925 -- 26 . In the 1930s , major excavations were conducted at the site under the leadership of Marshall , D.K. Dikshitar and Ernest Mackay . Further excavations were carried out in 1945 by Ahmad Hasan Dani and Mortimer Wheeler . The last major series of excavations were conducted in 1964 and 1965 by Dr. George F. Dales . After 1965 excavations were banned due to weathering damage to the exposed structures , and the only projects allowed at the site since have been salvage excavations , surface surveys , and conservation projects . However , in the 1980s , German and Italian survey groups led by Dr. Michael Jansen and Dr. Maurizio Tosi used less invasive archeological techniques , such as architectural documentation , surface surveys , and localized probing , to gather further information about Mohenjo - daro . A dry core drilling conducted in 2015 by Pakistan 's National Fund for Mohenjo - daro revealed that the site is larger than the unearthed area . </P>
<P> The ruins of the city remained undocumented for around 3,700 years until R.D. Banerji , an officer of the Archaeological Survey of India , visited the site in 1919 -- 20 , identifying the Buddhist stupa ( 150 -- 500 CE ) known to be there and finding a flint scraper which convinced him of the site 's antiquity . This led to large - scale excavations of Mohenjo - daro led by Kashinath Narayan Dikshit in 1924 -- 25 , and John Marshall in 1925 -- 26 . In the 1930s , major excavations were conducted at the site under the leadership of Marshall , D.K. Dikshitar and Ernest Mackay . Further excavations were carried out in 1945 by Ahmad Hasan Dani and Mortimer Wheeler . The last major series of excavations were conducted in 1964 and 1965 by Dr. George F. Dales . After 1965 excavations were banned due to weathering damage to the exposed structures , and the only projects allowed at the site since have been salvage excavations , surface surveys , and conservation projects . However , in the 1980s , German and Italian survey groups led by Dr. Michael Jansen and Dr. Maurizio Tosi used less invasive archeological techniques , such as architectural documentation , surface surveys , and localized probing , to gather further information about Mohenjo - daro . A dry core drilling conducted in 2015 by Pakistan 's National Fund for Mohenjo - daro revealed that the site is larger than the unearthed area . </P>
who excavated the site of mahenjodaro in sind
who excavated the site of mahenjodaro in sind
Kashinath Narayan Dikshit John Marshall
Kashinath Narayan Dikshit John Marshall