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This is a list of cities in South Asia thought to have been founded before the 8th century (before the rise of the Pala Empire). In alphabetical order. Amaravati; Anga (modern day Bhagalpur) Bharuch; Ayadhya (modern day kanyakumari) Badayun; Banbhore (now in Pakistan) Barbarikon (now in Pakistan) Bayana; Bhattiprolu; Bhinmal; Bhokardan ...
On 19 May 2001, India's Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Science and Technology division, Murli Manohar Joshi, announced that the ruins of an ancient civilization had been discovered off the coast of Gujarat, in the Gulf of Khambhat. The site was discovered by NIOT while they performed routine pollution studies using sonar, and ...
On occasion of 75 years of the Independence of India, the Ministry of Jal Shakti constituted a committee to identify the heritage water sites.Total 421 nominations were received from the states, union territories, central government agencies and people.
During 1983–1990, the Marine Archaeology Unit of India's National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) carried out underwater excavations at Dwarka and Bet Dwarka. [16] According to S. R. Rao "The available archaeological evidence from onshore and offshore excavations confirms the existence of a city-state with a couple of satellite towns in 1500 ...
India accepted the convention on 14 November 1977, making its sites eligible for inclusion on the list. [3] There are 43 World Heritage Sites in India. Out of these, 35 are cultural, seven are natural, and one, Khangchendzonga National Park, is of mixed type, listed for both cultural and natural properties. India has the sixth-most sites worldwide.
Pages in category "Underwater ruins" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Antirhodos; Atil; B.
Jomsborg and Vineta, legendary cities on the south coast of the Baltic Sea supposed to have been submerged in the Middle Ages. Kitezh, a legendary underwater city located in Russia, populated by spiritual people. Kumari Kandam, a mythical lost continent with an ancient Tamil civilization in the Indian Ocean
This category includes the cities, towns, villages, hamlets, pilgrim-places, hermitages and other localities of concentrated human settlements of ancient India mentioned in the epics Mahabharata and Ramayana as well as the Puranas.