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The Padmanabhaswamy temple treasure is a collection of valuable objects including gold thrones, crowns, coins, statues and ornaments, diamonds and other precious stones. It was discovered in some of the subterranean vaults of the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, in the Indian state of Kerala, when five of its six (or possibly eight) vaults were opened on 27 June 2011.
[11] [12] [10] [19] [57] Also, much of the treasures housed in the much larger and as-yet-unopened vaults, as well as in the much smaller cellars that have been opened, date back to long before the institution of the so-called Travancore Kingdom, e.g. the 800 kg (1,800 lb) hoard of gold coins from 200 B.C that was mentioned by Vinod Rai.
This is a list of List of National Treasures of India, as named by the Antiquities and Art Treasures Act (1972). [1] [2] Artists. List of National Treasures of India
The port-holed chamber in the western group of the Hirebenakal area has been compared to similar finds at Rajankolur. [ 4 ] The first published reports on Hirebenakal were those in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1835, by Philip Meadows Taylor , who was under the service of the Nizam of Hyderabad . [ 1 ]
The people responsible dug up the ground in search of the alleged treasure. Some villagers claimed that they took away hidden gold. [27] A Public-interest litigation (PIL) was filed in the Supreme Court of India seeking directions from the court to make proper arrangements for safety and protection of alleged hidden treasure. On 21 October 2013 ...
Archaeologists have unearthed a hidden tomb containing the remains of 12 ancient skeletons at the historic site that served as one of the filming locations for the 1989 blockbuster "Indiana Jones ...
The wooden chamber, Celtic in origin, was extremely well-preserved despite being 2,600 years old. ... Archaeologists Dug Up a Royal Grave—and Found a Secret Chamber Hidden Inside. Tim Newcomb ...
Only Chaitya hall of Ellora (Cave 10) with portico, balcony and horseshoe-shaped window. Buddhist cave temples represent an underground variant of the Buddhist monastery and temple complex, which dates back to the dwelling of the ascetic Śramana Movement since the epoch of the Upanishads (8th to 7th century BC) as well as to urbuddhist meditation sites.