DMK president and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, on Thursday (June 19, 2025), described the BJP-led Union government’s decision to not publish the Keeladi excavation report on the ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Thursday said that the Union government’s decision not to publish the Keeladi excavation report was an “onslaught on Tamil culture”, reported The Hindu.

Ramakrishna, whose groundbreaking excavation at Keeladi brought global attention to the antiquity of Tamil culture, has now been posted as Director of the National Mission on Monument and ...

When pressed about the BJP’s alleged reluctance to accept Tamil antiquity, Shekhawat said, “Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that Tamil Nadu is the most ancient language and that Tamil ...

The senior leader recalled that while the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) conducted Phases 1, 2, and 3 of the Keeladi excavations, the Tamil Nadu state government undertook Phases 4 through 9 ...

Chennai: Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat has said that the archaeological findings from the Keeladi excavation site in Tamil Nadu require further scientific validation before it is given ...

Then there is the 'Poompuhar' underwater excavations along the south-central Tamil Nadu coast, which was originally thought to be 2,500 years old (or, 5th century BCE) but which some have been ...

Stalin’s statement came in the backdrop of the excavations in Keeladi which had fuelled the Tamil pride and a sense of national identity. The carbon dating of the artefacts unearthed from Keeladi, the ...

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has challenged the dating and classification of key discoveries from Tamil Nadu’s Keeladi excavations, asking its officer to carry out extensive ...