John Marshall ( archaeologist ) - wikipedia John Marshall ( archaeologist ) For other people with the same name, see John Marshall ( disambiguation ). John Marshall ( 1876 - 03 - 19 ) 19 March 1876 Chester 17 August 1958 ( 1958 - 08 - 17 ) ( aged 82 ) Guildford Nationality British Citizenship British Known for excavations in Harappa, Mohenjodaro, Sanchi, Sarnath, Taxila, Crete and Knossos Awards Knighthood ( 1914 ) Scientific career Fields History, Archaeology Institutions Archaeological Survey of India Influences James Prinsep, H.H. Wilson, John Leyden, Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Colin Mackenzie and William Jones Sir John Hubert Marshall, CIE, FBA ( 19 March 1876, Chester, England -- 17 August 1958, Guildford, England ) was the Director - General of the Archaeological Survey of India from 1902 to 1928. He oversaw the excavations of Harappa and Mohenjodaro, two of the main cities that comprise the Indus Valley Civilization. Contents 1 Personal history and career 2 Publications 3 In British Academy 4 See also 5 References 6 External links Personal history and career Marshall was educated at Dulwich College as well as King 's College, Cambridge. In 1898 he won the Porson Prize. In 1902 the new viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, appointed Marshall as Director - General of Archaeology within the British Indian administration. Marshall modernised the approach to archaeology on that continent, introducing a programme of cataloguing and conservation of ancient monuments and artefacts. Marshall began the practice of allowing Indians to participate in excavations in their own country. In 1913, he began the excavations at Taxila, which lasted for twenty years. In 1918, he laid the foundation stone for the Taxila Museum, which today hosts many artifacts and one of Marshall 's few portraits. He then moved on to other sites, including the Buddhist centres of Sanchi and Sarnath. His work provided evidence of age of Indian civilisation especially Indus Valley Civilization and Mauryan age ( Ashoka 's Age ). Following the lead of his predecessor Alexander Cunningham, Marshall in 1920 initiated at dig at Harappa, with Daya Ram Sahni as director. In 1922 work began at Mohenjo - Daro. The results of these efforts, which revealed a seeming ancient culture with its own writing system, were published in the Illustrated London News on 20 September 1924. Scholars linked the artifacts with the ancient civilisation of Sumer in Mesopotamia. Subsequent excavation showed Harappa and Mohenjo - Daro to be sophisticated planned cities with plumbing and baths. Marshall also led excavations at the prehistoric Sohr Damb mound near Nal in Baluchistan ; a small representative collection of pottery vessels from the site is now in the British Museum. He is also known for his important part in excavations at Knossos and various other sites on Crete between 1898 and 1901. Marshall was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire ( CIE ) in June 1910 and knighted in January 1915. Publications Marshall, John ( ed. ) ( 1931 ). Mohenjo - Daro and the Indus Civilization. CS1 maint : Extra text : authors list ( link ) Volume 1 Volume 2 Marshall, John H. ( 1960 ). The Buddhist Art of Gandhara : the Story of the Early School, Its Birth, Growth and Decline. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Marshall, John H. ( 1960 ). A Guide to Taxila ( 4th ed. ). Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Taxila Achaeological Excavations Vol. III Marshall, John H. ; M.B. Garde ( 1927 ). The Bagh Caves in the Gwalior State. London : The India Society. Marshall, John H. ; Foucher, Alfred. The Monuments of Sanchi ( 3 vol. ). Marshall, John H. ( 1918 ). A Guide to Sanchi. Calcutta : Superintendent, Government Printing. In British Academy Sir John Marshall was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1936. See also Indus Valley Civilization R.D. Banerji References Jump up ^ `` ' Banerji robbed of credit for Indus findings ' ''. Jump up ^ `` Marshall, John Hubert ( MRSL895JH ) ''. A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge. Jump up ^ The India List and India Office List for 1905, London : Harrison and Sons, 1905, p. 562. Jump up ^ Jane McIntosh, The Ancient Indus Valley : New Perspectives ; ABC - CLIO, 2008 ; ISBN 978 - 1 - 57607 - 907 - 2 ; pp. 29 -- 32. Jump up ^ British Museum Collection Jump up ^ London Gazette, 23 June 1910 Jump up ^ London Gazette, 9 March 1915 External links J.H. Marshall, `` The Date of Kanishka '', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1914, pp. 973 -- 986. Sir John Marshall, A Guide to Taxila. Calcutta : Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1918, archive.org. `` Sir John Hubert Marshall '', britannica.com. Preceded by James Burgess Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India 1902 - 1928 Succeeded by Harold Hargreaves WorldCat Identities BIBSYS : 97025024 BNF : cb11288164r ( data ) GND : 102159246 ISNI : 0000 0000 8338 8020 LCCN : n50040993 SNAC : w67w6nqh SUDOC : 07369410X ULAN : 500278084 VIAF : 2463448 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Marshall_(archaeologist)&oldid=865503392 '' Categories : 1876 births 1958 deaths Knights Bachelor Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire Alumni of King 's College, Cambridge English archaeologists People associated with the Indus Valley Civilisation People of British India Directors General of the Archaeological Survey of India British Sindhologists 19th - century archaeologists 20th - century archaeologists Fellows of the British Academy Archaeologists of South Asia Hidden categories : Pages to import images to Wikidata Articles with hCards Pages using infobox scientist with unknown parameters CS1 maint : Extra text : authors list Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC - ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with ULAN identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Čeština Deutsch Español हिन्दी Bahasa Indonesia Italiano Lietuvių मराठी Русский سنڌي Suomi தமிழ் తెలుగు 4 more Edit links This page was last edited on 24 October 2018, at 09 : 52 ( UTC ). 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Question: where did the archaeological department of india carry out excavations in the indus valley
Answer: Harappa