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Street and Houses
- Fortification, well planned streets and lanes and drainage are noticed in the Harappan towns.
- The Harappans used baked and unbaked bricks, and stone for construction.
- The streets are observed to have a grid pattern. They were straight.
- Running from north to south and east to west.
- They were intersected with each other at right angles.
- The main streets were 33 feet wide and the smaller streets were 12 feet wide.
- The roads were wide with rounded corners.
- The houses were either one or two store yard.
- Most of the houses had many rooms, a courtyard and a well.
- Each house had toilets and bathrooms.
- There is no conclusive evidence of the presence of palaces or places of worship.