Consider the following statements about Ganweriwala site:

It is located in present day Rajasthan.

It is near a dry bed of the former Ghaggar or Sarasvati river.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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Ganweriwala is in Punjab (in present-day Pakistan) near the Indian border.
It was first discovered by Sir Aurel Stein and surveyed by Dr. M. R. Mughal in the 1970s.
It spreads over 80 hectares and is almost as large as Mohenjodaro.
It is near a dry bed of the former Ghaggar or Sarasvati river, and has not been excavated yet.
Equidistant between Harappa and Mohenjodaro, it may have been a fifth major urban centre.

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Ganweriwala is in Punjab (in present-day Pakistan) near the Indian border.
It was first discovered by Sir Aurel Stein and surveyed by Dr. M. R. Mughal in the 1970s.
It spreads over 80 hectares and is almost as large as Mohenjodaro.
It is near a dry bed of the former Ghaggar or Sarasvati river, and has not been excavated yet.
Equidistant between Harappa and Mohenjodaro, it may have been a fifth major urban centre.

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