Where is the Indus Civilization city Lothal ?

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Lothal was one of the historic Indus Valley Civilization's southern towns, located in the Bhal district of the present state of Gujarat.
The city's structure started around 2200 BCE. Lothal was founded in 1954 and explored by the Archaeological Survey of India, the authorized Government of India body responsible for the conservation of historical sites, from 13 February 1955 to 19 May 1960. According to the ASI, Lothal had the country's oldest known dock, which linked the town to a historic stream of the Sabarmati river on the trading port between Harappan settlements in Sindh and the Saurashtra peninsula when the adjoining Kutch desert was a portion of the Arabian Sea.

Other historians have questioned this view, claiming that Lothal was a tiny town and that the 'dock' was a drainage tank. Scientists from The National Institute of Oceanography, Goa found foraminifera salts, the lime crystal in the rectangular construction, suggesting that water originally flooded the building and it was a dockyard. In olden history, Lothal was an important and bustling commercial hub, with its commerce of beads, diamonds, and expensive decorations extending the distant reaches of West Asia and Africa. Their bead-making and metallurgical tools and skills have lasted the passage of time for almost 4000 years.

Lothal is located in Ahmedabad's Dholka Taluka, near the hamlet of Saragwala. On the Ahmedabad-Bhavnagar rail track, it is six kilometers southeast of the Lothal-Bhurkhi railway station. All-weather highways link it to the towns of Ahmedabad, Bhavnagar, Rajkot, and Dholka. Dholka and Bagodara are the closest towns. When researchers resumed digging in 1961, they discovered ditches excavated on the mound's eastern, northern, and western slopes, revealing the inlet passages and nullah that connected the dock to the stream. A mound, a settlement, a marketplace, and a pier were discovered. The Archaeological Museum, which lies next to the excavated regions, houses one of India's most famous exhibits of Indus-era artifacts.