Archeology

  Chennai, November 14 (BPNS) The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), Chennai Circle, will commence excavation work at Amoor, a protected site near Thiruporur in Chengalpattu district, Tamil Nadu, soon. Sources in the ASI however told BPNS that the excavations is most likely to commence from January 2025. The ASI had previously identified a megalithic […]

Chennai, Sept 14( BPNS) A team of students and professors of Mannar Thirumalai College in Madurai recently discovered a 400-year-old Naick-era stone inscription at a temple in Theni. The 400-year-old stone inscription was found at a temple in Andipatti taluk in Theni. The archaeologically precious material was discovered by Assistant professors of the Department of […]

Chennai, Aug 12 (BPNS) Archeological experts and Anthropologists of Tamil Nadu have joined with the Archeological Survey of India officials in conducting detailed research on the 0.30 g gold that was unearthed during excavation at Sivagalai. The archeologists are tight-lipped over the type of ornament this small piece of gold was part of. It may […]

Chennai, Aug 9(BPNS) The Archeological Survey of India (ASI) unearthed a diadem at a burial urn in Tuticorin on Monday. This was similar to the 20 diadems that were excavated by the British archeologist, Alexandar Rea 120 years ago. The diadem was found in a burial urn at a one-meter depth. The ASI Tiruchi Zone […]

Chennai, Aug 2 (BPNS) The Madras High court ordered the Archeological department of Tamil Nadu to take over a Hindu temple in Salem after it was found that the temple was a Buddhist abode. The single bench of the Madras High court of Justice Anand Venkatesh directed the authorities that no pooja is held at […]

Chennai, July 13 (BPNS) Historians and researchers on Archeology stumbled upon a 13 AD stone pillar which reportedly had information on Jewish trade links. Scholars and students of Ramanathapuram Archeological  Research Foundation said that the stone pillar which was unearthed at Valantharavai in Ramanathapuram district is a pointer to the trade that had taken place […]

Chennai, June 17 (BPNS) Tiruvannamalai Centre For Historic Research(TCHR), an organization in the studies of archeological research and documentation has called upon the Tamil Nadu Archeology department to conduct detailed studies on rock carvings in the Tiruvannamalai district after Petroglyph or Prehistoric rock carvings were detected in the district. A study conducted by the TCHR […]

Chennai, June 9(BPNS) A group of archeologists who were on a research purpose in a cave near Ikuntham in Kothapalli Village of Krishnagiri has stumbled upon rock arts, black and red ancient pottery, and microlithic tools belonging to different periods. The rock arts that were two metres long and one metre tall, depict some religious […]

Chennai, May 3 (BPNS) Excavations at Vembakottai in Virudhunagar district of Tamil Nadu have unearthed an ancient terracotta lamp, which according to archeologists is an intrinsically decorated one. Archeologists who were part of the excavation told BPNS that this was the first lamp that they have collected as a full and complete piece while fragments […]