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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 ...
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 ...
In December 2023, the Government of Gujarat announced the introduction of India's first submarine-based underwater tourism facility in Dwarka, to be operationalised by October 2024. [39] This initiative, in collaboration with Mazgaon Dock shipbuilders , aims to offer an underwater exploration of the marine life around Dwarka. [ 40 ]
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 ...
In 1927, Purnalingam Pillai published a map titled "Puranic India before the Deluges", in which he labeled the various places of Kumari Kandam with names drawn from ancient Tamil and Sanskrit literary works. Pulavar Kulanthai, in his 1946 map, was first to depict cities like Tenmaturai and Kapatapuram on the maps of Kumari Kandam.
One of the ancient lands the project aims to explore is Doggerland, which is thought to have thrived in North Sea region some 8,200 years ago. “Twenty-thousand years ago, the global sea level ...
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The ancient Tamil poem Manimekalai by the poet Seethalai Saathanar is set in the town of Kaveripattanam. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Ancient ruins of a 4th-5th-century Buddhist monastery, a Buddha statue, and a Buddhapada (footprint of the Buddha) were found in another section of the ancient city, now at Pallavanesvaram.