With recent findings on the Iron Age creating excitement among archaeologists and scholars worldwide, Tamil Nadu has charted ...

Long before Rome, before China’s Iron Age, Tamil Nadu was already forging some of the world’s finest swords. New ...

Did Tamil Nadu rewrite Iron Age history? New findings reveal iron-smelting here dates back to 3345 BCE—2,000 years before the ...

Debates over the antiquity of Tamil language, civilisation and culture have been raging for many decades in the academic and ...

The podcast that delves into the stories shaping southern India. In this episode, hosts Dhanya Rajendran and Leena Reghunath ...

As iron ore was abundant in south India, our ancestors’ brains figured out how to use it while the rest of the world ...

Archaeologists have found a 13-cm-long iron knife broken in three parts in the ongoing excavation site in Marungur in present ...

DMK MP Kanimozhi criticised the BJP-led Union government for threatening minorities, particularly Muslims. She condemned the government's silence on Tamil Nadu's 5,345-year-old Iron Age discovery in ...

Beyond the political theatrics, the report reflects the hard work of archaeologists. It deserves open-minded academic scrutiny.

But research continued at various fronts and the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin came out with an announcement that the Iron Age started on Tamil soil, providing scientific evidence.