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Karnataka town draws global attention
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Archaeologists have discovered 4,000-year-old artefacts during an excavation near Mallikarjuna Hill and the Anjaneya Swamy Temple in Maski in Karnataka's Raichur district.
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In Karnataka's Raichu district, the town of Muskie is back in the spotlight after researchers
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uncovered signs of a civilization that lived here 4,000 years ago. Near the Anjaneya Swami
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temple and Mallika Arjun Hill, archaeologists found artifacts like clay pots, tools, utensils
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and artistic pieces all pointing to a well-organized settled community. The excavation has been going
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on for three months. It's led by Professor Andrew Bohr from Stanford University and scholars from
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Shiv Nadar University along with a 20-member team from India, the US and Canada. According
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to Professor Kadambi, the artifacts date back to between 11th and 14th centuries BCE. That
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places Muskie in the pre-Iron Age period, offering solid evidence of continuous human presence
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here thousands of years ago. Muskie isn't new to the world of archaeology. In 1950, this
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is where an Ashokan inscription was found. The first to connect the title, Devanampiya
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Piadasi to Emperor Ashoka. Now, this fresh discovery has taken Muskie even further back
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in time, deepening its place in South India's ancient history. But Karnataka isn't alone.
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In Tamil Nadu, excavations at Kirzadi have unored an advanced INA settlement dating back to the
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6th century BCE, complete with urban planning, industries and early Tamil Brahmin script. Together,
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Muskie and Kiradi are helping rewrite the story of ancient South India, showing us how different
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regions evolved independently yet richly. Before this excavation, 271 potential sites
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had been identified in and around Muskie. The latest pines near the temple confirmed that
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people didn't just pass through, they built lives here. And the digging isn't over. As
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researchers go deeper, more layers of our shared past could still be waiting to be discovered.
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