Little did he know that his quest to collect pottery, iron tools, and stone objects scattered ... his discovery would soon rewrite the history of the Iron Age in Tamil Nadu. When Chief Minister ...

A recent study led by Dr. Balázs Tihanyi and his colleagues, published in PLOS ONE, has led to the positive identification of the first-known female burial with weapons in the 10th-century ...

For some, to my mind strange, reason Eilat tends to draw the vacationing crowds in the ... amenable to the idea of their charges downing tools for a week or two at that time of the year.

Releasing report by Tamil Nadu archeology dept at Anna Centenary Library, Stalin says samples excavated from archaeological ...

Releasing the report, ‘Antiquity of Iron: Recent radiometric dates from Tamil Nadu’, authored by K. Rajan and R. Sivanantham, Mr. Stalin said: “The Iron Age began on Tamil soil!”.

He recalled he was taught that the antiquity of the Iron Age in India did not go beyond the 6th Century BC. “Now it has gone from 6th century BC to about 2500 BC. I am very proud to think that ...

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 ...

Tamil Nadu, which has declared itself a pioneer of the Iron Age following radiocarbon dating results from reputed institutes tracing iron samples from the State to 3345 BC, must now curb ...

Fragments of copper alloy unearthed at one of Britain's most important archaeology sites have been revealed to be parts of an incredibly rare Iron Age helmet. The discovery was made by the British ...

Chennai: Proclaiming to the world, ‘The Iron Age began on Tamil soil,’ Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday said, with immense pride and unmatched satisfaction, that the use of iron in Tamil ...

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 carbon dating of samples from burial urns in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin district suggests the Iron Age could well have begun in the state. As per the study, Iron Age began at least 1,000 years ...