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For over 20 years, archaeologists in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu have been unearthing clues to the region's ancient ...
Recent radiometric dates from Tamil Nadu’, authored by K. Rajan and R. Sivanantham, Mr. Stalin said: “The Iron Age began on Tamil soil!”. He went on to cite carbon dating results from ...
Chief Minister M K Stalin declared that the history of the Indian subcontinent can 'no longer overlook Tamil Nadu but must begin here.' ...
Charging the Modi government with making persistent attempts to destroy and bury the rich heritage and antiquity of Tamil, ...
CHENNAI – A groundbreaking archaeological excavation in Tamil Nadu is challenging existing global timelines for the Iron Age. Researchers have uncovered evidence suggesting that iron-making in ...
Iron Age in Tamil Nadu may have begun around 3,345 BCE, a thousand years earlier than previously believed, new carbon dating from burial urns in Sivagalai reveals. This challenges the notion that ...
Recent Radiometric Dates from Tamil Nadu’ in Chennai, Stalin said he was making the remarkable anthropological announcement, not only to India but to the whole world, that the “Iron Age began ...
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin proclaimed that the iron age began on “Tamil soil”, placing the date 5,300-odd years ago (4th millennium BCE), and that the “history of Indian ...
The recent announcement by the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin that the Iron Age began in Tamil Nadu is a case in point. It is not an accident that the findings of Tamil Nadu archaeologists ...
Tamil Nadu has emerged as a crucial locus in the narrative of the Indian Iron Age, challenging long-held assumptions about the origins of metallurgy in the subcontinent. This discovery not only ...
Tamil Nadu chief minister M.K. Stalin on Thursday claimed that the “iron age” began in southern India 5,300 years ago, contesting accumulated archaeological evidence indicating that iron smelting ...
Department of Archaeology/Tamil Nadu An Iron Age grave found at the Kilnamandi excavation site Also, in a site called Kodumanal, excavators found a furnace, pointing to an advanced iron-making ...