A groundbreaking study reveals that Tamil Nadu's Iron Age began as early as 3,345 BCE, predating the Hittite Empire's iron usage by a millennium. Radiometric dating of burial urn samples from ...

Rajan and R. Sivanantham, Mr. Stalin said: “The Iron Age began on Tamil soil!”. He went on to cite carbon dating results from renowned institutions. The finding meant that iron usage was ...

In an announcement that challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of the Iron Age, a new study has found evidence that the use of iron in ... These findings highlight the region’s ...

In that context, the revelation last week by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin that the Iron Age—deemed by historians, archaeologists ... not an artificial construct as asserted by the British and ...

Tamil Nadu, which has declared itself a pioneer of the Iron Age following radiocarbon dating results from reputed institutes tracing iron samples from the State to 3345 BC, must now curb ...

Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu MK Stalin released a report titled ‘Antiquity of Iron: Recent Radiometric Dates from Tamil Nadu’ on 23 January at the Anna Centenary Library, Chennai. In front of an ...

Chennai: Proclaiming to the world, ‘The Iron Age began on Tamil soil,’ Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday said, with immense pride and unmatched satisfaction, that the use of iron in Tamil ...

Iron Age in Tamil Nadu may have begun around 3,345 BCE, a thousand years earlier than previously believed, new carbon dating from burial urns in Sivagalai reveals. This challenges the notion that ...

Recent carbon dating of samples from burial urns in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin district suggests the Iron Age could well have begun in the state. As per the study, Iron Age began at least 1,000 years ...

Did Tamil Nadu rewrite Iron Age history? New findings reveal iron-smelting here dates back to 3345 BCE—2,000 years before the rest of the world. Join Manish Adhikary on The Culture Project as he ...

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From modest beginnings, his discovery would soon rewrite the history of the Iron Age in Tamil Nadu ... chisels, axes, and swords, some of which were found inside the urns. These discoveries ...