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3 days, 20 hours ago

Both Harappan cities and Keeladi had burial sites outside the habitation area: Amarnath Ramakrishna

“The people of Indus Valley Civilisation never disappeared. Mr. Ramakrishna spoke here on the topic ‘Indus Valley Civilisation and its impact towards the continuous legacy of the Dravidian culture viewed from Keeladi excavation’ at the international conference commemorating the centenary of the discovery of Indus Valley Civilisation. He said both Harappan cities and Keeladi had burial sites outside of the …

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4 days, 12 hours ago

Why Tamil Nadu CM Stalin pledged USD 1 million for decoding Indus script

India Today

The enigmatic script of the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation, which has remained undeciphered since its discovery in the early 1920s by archaeologists led by Sir John Marshall, now carries a USD 1 million reward for anyone who decodes it. The substantial cash reward comes from Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin, thousands of kilometres away from the geographical region of the …

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6 days, 12 hours ago

Decode Indus Valley script, win USD 1 million prize: MK Stalin's challenge

India Today

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Sunday announced a USD 1 million cash prize for anyone who can successfully decipher the scripts of the Indus Valley Civilisation. Inaugurating the centenary celebration of the Indus Valley Civilisation conference in Chennai, MK Stalin said, "We are still unable to clearly understand the script of the Indus Valley Civilisation that once flourished. …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Why Tamil Nadu’s Iron Age sites are so significant

Live Mint

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 …

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3 years, 3 months ago

How digging up the past helps us understand the present

Live Mint

Early this August, a 2000-year-old snack bar, discovered in the ancient city of Pompeii, Italy, was opened to the public. “More work needs to happen in Kanmer to record the different kinds of craft created there.” Where warriors once lived It was like a scene out of a movie—farmers levelling their land found skeletons and pottery in Sinauli, in Uttar …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Ancestral Dravidian languages were possibly spoken by many in Indus Valley civilisation, says study

The Hindu

A recent publication has provided crucial evidence that Ancestral Dravidian languages were possibly spoken by a significant population in the Indus Valley civilisation. This study seeks to resolve a crucial part of this perennial puzzle of South Asian prehistory, through establishing the certain existence of ancestral Dravidian language in the Indus Valley civilisation. Thus, the only feasible starting point is …

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4 years, 4 months ago

Indus Valley Civilisation May Have Ended Due to Impact of Climate Change on Monsoon Patterns

News 18

Shifting monsoon patterns linked to climate change likely caused the rise and fall of the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation, according to a study by an Indian-origin scientist which analysed data from North India covering the past 5,700 years. The analysis by Nishant Malik from Rochester Institute of Technology in the US used a new mathematical method to study ancient climate …

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5 years, 2 months ago

Keeladi: Unearthing the 'Vaigai Valley' Civilisation of Sangam era Tamil Nadu

The Hindu

In the last week of September 2019, Keerthi Jeyaraj, Director of EduRight Foundation, flew from Texas, the U.S., to Pallichandai Thidal, a nondescript mound at the far end of Keeladi, a tiny hamlet located 12 km southeast of the historic city of Madurai in Tamil Nadu. The first round of excavation, undertaken by the Archaeological Survey of India, unearthed antiquities …

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5 years, 10 months ago

Indus Valley Civilisation continues to provide crucial insight into Indians' ancestors and their lifestyles

Firstpost

I read an interesting book this week, titled Which of us are Aryans? Till the 1920s, Indians did not know about the existence of the Indus Valley Civilisation, which was discovered in places like Harappa, Mohenjo-daro in Sindh and then elsewhere in India. The discovery of how old the Indus Valley Civilisation was changed the way people thought about the …

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5 years, 10 months ago

Our history is older than Aryan influx

Deccan Chronicle

I read an interesting book this week, titled, “Which of us are Aryans?”. Till the 1920s, Indians did not know about the existence of the Indus Valley Civilisation, which was discovered in places like Harappa, Mohenjo Daro in Sindhi and then elsewhere in India. The discovery of how old the Indus Valley Civilisation was changed the way people thought about …

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