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Rare coins unearthed from Andhra temple

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Rajahmundry (AP): A large collection of rare coins minted in the 19th century have been discovered from a 300-year-old Shiva temple in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh.
About 975 coins compri

Archaeologists train cannons at Metro

Metro Rail workers found another cannon on Friday, a day after stumbling upon the first one on Thursday, while carrying out underground works near Vani Vilas Hospital.

Archaeologists are upset that

Experts inspect Bodhi tree in Bodh Gaya

A team of Forest Research Institute (FRI) scientists inspected the ailing Bodhi tree here recently.

The team has been working with the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to restore the trees.

In

Another 'vampire' skeleton unearthed in Bulgaria

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Another centuries-old skeleton of a man who was subjected to a ritual to stop him from turning into a vampire was unearthed in central Bulgaria on Tuesday, archaeologist Nikolay Ovcharov said.

"The s

'Vampire' skeletons unearthed in Bulgaria

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have unearthed two skeletons from the Middle Ages pierced through the chest with iron rods to keep them from turning into vampires, the head of the history museum said on Tu

Students stumble upon 3 new megalithic sites

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The post graduate students of University of Hyderabad came across three new megalithic sites at Kistapuram near Gundala in Khammam district, during a workshop.

Apart from the discovery of over a hun

Prehistoric tools, artefacts found in Chhattisgarh

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In an 'incredibly significant find', archaeologists have discovered prehistoric remains at a river bank in Chhattisgarh’s Sarguja district, indicating continued settlements in the area from prehistori

3,000 year old turtle-shaped tomb found in Kancheepuram

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Barely an hour’s drive from Chennai city, archeologists have unearthed what could perhaps be India’s earliest human settlement, dating back to 3,000 years ago.

A massive 24-m-long turtle-shaped tomb

Together once, divided Now

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Mullaperiyar has created disharmony between Kerala & Tamil Nadu. But, the two States need not lose hope. For, they still retain the grains of a common past. That’s the message DC gets from the 1000 BC

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