A study has revealed that the Thamirabarani civilization in Tamil Nadu is at least 3,200 years old.<\/span><\/p>\n The study was carried out by the <\/span>US-based Beta Analytic Testing Laboratory.<\/strong><\/p>\n The laboratory has conducted the <\/span>carbon dating analysis of rice with soil found in a burial urn in Sivakalai in southern Tamil Nadu<\/strong> during an archaeological excavation.<\/span><\/p>\n The analysis has revealed that the <\/span>Porunai river [Thamirabarani] <\/strong>civilization<\/strong> belongs to 1155 BCE which is 3,200 years ago.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Encouraged by<\/span> this finding, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister has announced the establishment of the Porunai Museum in Tirunelveli<\/strong> at a cost of \u20b915 crores.<\/span><\/p>\n The Tamil Nadu government will now conduct archaeological excavations in neighbouring states and countries<\/strong> in search of Tamil roots.<\/span><\/p>\n In the first phase,<\/strong> studies would be undertaken at the ancient port of Musiri now known as Pattanam, in Kerala. Similar studies<\/strong> would also be conducted at Vengi in Andhra Pradesh and Palur in Odisha.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Tamil Nadu Archaeology Department would also conduct research at Quseir al-Qadim and Pernica Anekke in Egypt<\/strong> as well as in Khor Rori in Oman<\/strong> to establish the Tamils trade relations with these countries. <\/span><\/p>\n Note: Pot shreds with Tamil scripts<\/strong> have been found in these countries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Moreover, studies would also be conducted in southeast Asian countries<\/strong> such as Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam where king Rajendra Chola had established supremacy<\/strong><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Source:<\/b> \u00a0<\/b>This post is based on the article<\/span> \u201c<\/b>Thamirabarani civilisation 3,200 years old<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in The Hindu <\/b>on 10th September 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? A study has revealed that the Thamirabarani civilization in Tamil Nadu is at least 3,200 years old. About the study on Thamirabarani civilization The study was carried out by the US-based Beta Analytic Testing Laboratory. The laboratory has conducted the carbon dating analysis of rice with soil found in a burial… Continue reading Thamirabarani civilisation 3,200 years old<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[9517,9518,9660],"class_list":["post-133084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-ancient-history","tag-new-discoveries","tag-thamirabarani-civilization","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About the study on Thamirabarani civilization<\/b><\/h5>\n
Future Excavations to find Tamil Roots<\/b><\/h5>\n