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‘Keezhadi excavations show people thrived producing textiles and making jewellery’

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Archaeologists find neolithic stone tools in Hyderabad

Humans were using fire in Europe 50,000 years earlier than we thought

T.N. Chief Minister lays foundation for museum in Tiruneveli to showcase Porunai artefacts

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University of Science and Technology of China graduate student Wei-Wei Sun works with an ATTA setup using calcium atoms.

Explained | How lasers are helping calcium-41 break into radiometric dating

12th-century inscription found at Bapatla temple in Andhra Pradesh

Mann Ki Baat hiccup for Assam archaeological site

Tirunelveli District Collector K.P. Karthikeyan, on Thursday, taking a look at the artefacts found during the first phase of excavations at Thulukkarpatti

T.N. CM Stalin inaugurates second phase of excavations at Thulukkarpatti in Tirunelveli district

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Material evidence from the site also strengthens the belief that Pattanam society may have lived in harmony with nature, like several indigenous societies did.

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Shola Khamba, a constellation of 16 monolithic (now 13) pillars, a part of the Sisupalgarh fort city in Bhubaneswar.

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Sriharikota: ISRO’s LVM3 carrying 36 satellites lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Station, in Sriharikota, Sunday, March 26, 2023. The 36 satellites were part of the agreement with NewSpace India Ltd, the commercial arm of ISRO and Network Access Associates Ltd, United Kingdom.

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File photo, the Gyanvapi Mosque after its survey by a commission, in Varanasi.

Gyanvyapi dispute: Allahabad HC gives ASI more time to file reply on age evaluation of ‘Shivling’

This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows Siniyah Island in Umm al-Quwain, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, March 16, 2023. Archaeologists said Monday, March 20, 2023, that they have found the oldest pearling town in the Persian Gulf on an island off one of its northern sheikhdoms of the United Arab Emirates, further expanding this young nation’s understanding of its pre-Islamic history.

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From UNESCO site stewardship to tourism boards to leadership positions at big corporations, the possibilities are truly endless for archaeologists and anthropologists.

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Minister Thangam Thennarasu at an exhibition on the side lines of an international conference organised in memory of Iravatham Mahadevan in Chennai on Friday.

T.N. has highest number of inscriptions compared to any other State: Minister

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In this undated photo distributed Monday, March 6, 2023, by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, a sphinx statue believed to be made in the likeness of a Roman emperor is uncovered from an archaeological site in Qena, Egypt. The site that also contains a shrine to the Ancient Egyptian god Horus dating back to the Roman era, according to the country’s top antiquities official Mostafa Waziri. Waziri also said in a statement that initial examinations point to the statue being modeled after the Roman Emperor Claudius, who ruled in the first century AD.

Smiley, dimpled sphinx statue unearthed in Egypt

Chief Minister M.K. Stalin at the inauguration of the Museum of Archaeological Artifacts found at Keezadi Excavation in Sivagangai district on Sunday.

T.N. CM Stalin opens Keeladi museum as a fitting tribute to ancient Tamils

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The last image to contain a complete view of asteroid Didymos (top left) and its moonlet, Dimorphos, about 2.5 minutes before the impact of NASA’s DART spacecraft, taken by the on board DRACO imager from a distance of 920 kilometers, and released September 26, 2022.

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This undated photo provided by Micha Podsiad shows an overview of the archaeological excavations in Malomirovo, Bulgaria. Archaeologists have identified the earliest direct evidence for horseback riding an innovation that would transform human history in 5,000 year old skeletons in central Europe.

First evidence for horseback riding dates back 5,000 years

Researcher Mikael Larsson examines samples of saffron found after nearly 500 years on the seabed on the wreck of the Gribshunden, a ship that sank in 1495 off Sweden’s Baltic coast, as he works in a laboratory in Lund University , Denmark, March 2, 2023.

Archaeologists find well-preserved 500-year-old spices on Baltic shipwreck

The 1958 AMASR Act has hindered construction of a proposed Delhi Metro corridor near Tughlaqabad Fort in New Delhi.

Explained | What is the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains (Amendment) Bill?

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‘Businesses can help citizens understand why monuments matter by earmarking CSR funds for grants for researching, writing, and publishing quality textbooks, and developing effective ways of teaching history’

A thumbs down for the ‘Adopt a Heritage’ scheme

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