Kodumanal excavation Subject: Art and Culture Context: For the first time at the Kodumanal excavation site, a 2,300 year-old step-well has been found during excavation by a team of the State Department of Archaeology Concept: It is along the banks of the Noyyal, in Chennimalai Union in Erode district that served as habitation-cum-industrial […]

Subject: Arts and culture Context: The Kodumanal excavation in Tamil Nadu of 10 pots and bowls, instead of the usual three or four pots, placed outside three-chambered burial cists and inside the cairn-circle, threw light on burial rituals and the concept of afterlife in megalithic culture. Concept: It was once a flourishing ancient trade city […]