தமிழ்நாட்டில் 4200 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்னரே இரும்பின் பயன்பாடு நிலவியதை #மயிலாடும்பாறை கரிம மாதிரிகளின் காலக் கணக்கீட்டு முடிவுகள் நிறுவியுள்ளன! பிற...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin announced scientific accelerator mass spectrometry carbon-dating results from the Mayiladumparai archaeological excavation site in Krishnagiri district, conclusively establishing that iron technology was practiced in Tamil Nadu as early as 2172 BCE, over 4,200 years ago. Stalin declared that these findings fundamentally transform Indian historiography by pushing back the proven antiquity of the Iron Age in peninsular India by centuries.

The Chief Minister highlighted that the scientific dating results demolish long-standing Eurocentric and northern-centric archaeological assumptions regarding the origins of metallurgy in the subcontinent. He emphasized that recent discoveries at Keeladi, Sivagalai, Korkai, and Mayiladumparai provide incontrovertible scientific evidence of an advanced, literate, and technologically sophisticated urban Tamil civilization thriving thousands of years ago.

Stalin announced that the Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology will expand scientific excavations into neighbouring states and maritime trading partners across Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean. Declaring emphatically that the history of the Indian subcontinent must henceforth be rewritten from the southern perspective, the Chief Minister affirmed that his administration will deploy modern scientific dating methodologies to establish the historical truth and classical heritage of ancient Tamil civilization globally.