{"id":222940,"date":"2023-01-18T19:14:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T13:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=222940"},"modified":"2023-02-25T12:37:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T07:07:35","slug":"archaeological-survey-of-india-all-set-to-begin-excavation-at-purana-qila-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/archaeological-survey-of-india-all-set-to-begin-excavation-at-purana-qila-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Archaeological Survey of India all set to begin Excavation at Purana Qila again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Archaeological Survey of India all set to begin Excavation at Purana Qila again<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>PIB <\/b>on<b> 18th January 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is all set to begin\u00a0 excavation at Delhi\u2019s Purana Qila again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is <\/b><b>Purana Qila?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Purana Qila is the 16th-century fort. It was built by Sher Shah Suri and the second Mughal emperor Humayun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The walls of the Purana Quila are made of enormous red stones having minimal ornamentation and decoration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The major attractions inside the fort are the <strong>Qila-i-Kuhna mosque<\/strong> of Sher Shah Suri, <strong>Sher Mandal<\/strong> (a tower, which is traditionally associated with the death of Humayun), a stepwell and the remains of the extensive rampart which has three gates.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What did the earlier excavations at the site reveal about Purana Quila?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Excavations have revealed that the Purana Quila stands at the site of Indraprastha, the capital of the Pandavas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Purana Quila is also the only place in Delhi, which has cultural deposits of the last 2,500 years in its various layers, from the pre-Mauryan to the modern era.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The findings and artefacts unearthed in earlier excavations comprise painted grey ware, belonging to 900BC, an earthen pottery sequence from Maurya to Shunga, Kushana, Gupta, Rajput, Sultanates and Mughal periods.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cArchaeological Survey of India all set to begin Excavation at Purana Qila again\u201d published in PIB on 18th January 2023. What is the News? The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is all set to begin\u00a0 excavation at Delhi\u2019s Purana Qila again.\u00a0 What is Purana Qila? Purana Qila&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/archaeological-survey-of-india-all-set-to-begin-excavation-at-purana-qila-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Archaeological Survey of India all set to begin Excavation at Purana Qila again<\/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":[1566,11212,7965,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-222940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222940","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=222940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}