For over 20 years, archaeologists in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu have been unearthing clues to the region's ancient ...

That effectively makes Mayiladumparai, in north-western Tamil Nadu, the oldest Iron Age site in India. It indicates that Tamils who lived 4,200 years ago were aware of iron technology, had tools ...

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 ...

Chief Minister M K Stalin declared that the history of the Indian subcontinent can 'no longer overlook Tamil Nadu but must begin here.' ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

establishing the iron age of Tamil Nadu has proved difficult. Now, findings from excavations in Mayiladumparai in Krishnagiri district have established it to be 4,200 years old, on a par with ...

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 ...

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 ...