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A museum to Keeladi, an ancient site unearthed in Tamil Nadu

On the highway southeast of Madurai, leading to Sivaganga district, the dust rises in the afternoon heat, swirling in circles, and mirages turn the road into imaginary mirrors. The historic wealth that the Keeladi digs have yielded clearly suggest that the second urbanisation that was observed in the Gangetic valley happened in Tamil Nadu too in 6 BCE. From deep …

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The story so far: Keeladi is a tiny hamlet in the Sivaganga district in south Tamil Nadu. The excavations here from 2015 prove that an urban civilisation existed in Tamil Nadu in the Sangam age on the banks of the Vaigai river. The Sangam age is a period of history in ancient Tamil Nadu which was believed to be from …

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The remarks that the Governor of Tamil Nadu, R.N. The linkages Tamil Nadu has to the Dravidian political ideology are inalienable and the remarks made by Mr. Ravi must be viewed with some concern. Annadurai, a stalwart of the Dravidian Movement and a former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, had anticipated such baseless positioning in his book, Arya Mayai. The …

Why Tamil Nadu’s Iron Age sites are so significant

A few months before the pandemic put an end to all excursions, about 10,000 people lined up to tramp through the remains of an ancient township in Keeladi in southern Tamil Nadu, about 12km from Madurai. It was stunning,” recalls Tamil Nadu state archaeological officer B. Aasaithambi, who worked at the Keeladi excavation site in Sivaganga district from 2017-20. This …

Carbon dating proves that Tamirabarani civilisation is 3,200 years old: Tamil Nadu CM Stalin

Scientists find 2,600 year-old earthenware coated with carbon nanotubes in Tamil Nadu

Scientists have discovered the oldest known human-made nanomaterials in the “unique black coatings” of ancient pottery shards -- dated to 600 BC -- unearthed from an archeological site in Keeladi, Tamil Nadu. According to the scientists, including those from Vellore Institute of Technology in Tamil Nadu, the coatings are “the oldest nanostructures observed till now.” “Until this discovery, to our …