Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman laid the foundation stone on Saturday for an archeological museum in Adichanallur in the Thoothukudi district, her office said. "The primary goal of the gallery is centered around laying out the meaning of the archeological sites recognised as a component of the social scene of the Tamirabharani valley, not restricted to the site of Adichanallur. …
The Archaeological Survey of India has now literally struck gold at Adichanallur, the largest well-preserved urn burial site in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu. Strongly criticised by Tamil people, particularly politicians, for “abandoning” excavation at Keeladi, near Madurai, where a Sangam Age urban settlement had been discovered, the ASI recently began its excavations again at Adichanallur. Apart from unearthing burial urns, characteristic …