Ancient terracotta pipelines excavated at Keeladi in Tamil Nadu | Latest News India

Amid the continued tenth section of archaeological excavation in Keeladi, a terracotta pipeline has been discovered, additional indicating presence of an historical water administration follow adopted by folks no less than 2,600 years in the past, officers conversant in the matter stated. Beforehand, the archaeologists discovered an open drain, a closed channel and small tanks in Keeladi.

One of many officers stated that the newest discovering of a pipeline is a cylindrical construction. Six such constructions have been discovered to make one lengthy pipeline. Every cylindrical construction is 36 cm in size and 18 cm in width.

“The six cylindrical constructions are neatly fitted collectively. The complete pipeline is at a size of about 174 cm. This has been absolutely unearthed now. This pipeline continues to the adjoining trench. This might have been used for carrying protected water,” an official of the archaeology division stated.

Keeladi, the Sangam Period website 12 km south-east of Madurai, is dated to be no less than 2,600 years outdated that had a thriving industrialised settlement on the banks of Vaigai river. Tamil Nadu in June launched its bold archaeological excavations in 4 present websites, together with Keeladi, and contemporary digging at 4 new websites as a part of its efforts to “scientifically show” that India’s historical past needs to be rewritten from the Tamil panorama.

One of many important findings final 12 months was the invention of two,030 graffiti marks, together with 4 with Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions, from Thulukkarpatti in Tirunelveli district. Scientific dates obtained by way of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) courting of samples collected from archaeological websites excavated by the Tamil Nadu state division of archaeology (TNSDA) have pushed the origin of Tamili (Tamil-Brahmi) script by hundred years to seventh century BCE. The state authorities is embarking on a comparative examine of the graffiti marks, potsherds, with these from the Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC).

Artefacts unearthed in Keeladi have pushed the Sangam period to 600 BCE from 300 BCE, rice husks present in a burial urn in Sivakalai was discovered to be 3,200 years outdated, and that Tamils had been conscious of iron expertise in 2172 BCE, 4,200 years in the past. The carbon courting pushed the Sangam period by 300 years that it was considered. Keeladi was first found in 2014 by Amarnath Ramakrishna of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).