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Iron knife recovered from ongoing excavation site in Cuddalore: Minister

Hindustan Times 30 Jan 2025
“The reports pointed to the use of iron in the region to the beginning of 4th millennium BCE.” Before the announcement, the advent of the Iron Age in India was considered to be the painted grey ware ...
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Stalin: Advent of Iron Age from Tamil soil

Hindustan Times 24 Jan 2025
“With immense pride and unmatched satisfaction, I have declared to the world ... Till now, the advent of the Iron Age in India was considered to be the painted grey ware culture in the northern Gangetic plains in around 1,500 BCE ... ....
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Ancient India and the age of language mixing

Deccan Herald 23 Sep 2024
... India.&nbsp;</p>.<p>The pottery types used by the Indo-Aryans — the painted grey ware — differed from the black and red ware used by the prehistoric speakers in East and South India.
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Archaeological discoveries reveal unique Early Bronze Age village structures

The Jordan Times 29 Jul 2024
Red and common wares present several regional varieties with few connections between them, while there are at least three kinds of painted wares," De Miroschedji said, adding that burnished grey ware ...
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Searching for Indraprastha: Can excavations at Purana Qila find its Mahabharata link

Financial Express 01 Jun 2024
The excavation also threw up a few sherds of Painted Grey Ware, which Lal claimed was \u201ctypical of the Mahabharata times\u201d and evidence that the site could have experienced human settlement since as early as 1000 BCE.
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Archaeological riches of Khirbat Faris

The Jordan Times 03 Jan 2024
Late Roman and Byzantine sherds were recovered from the site and our own collection added a sherd of Umayyad red-on-grey painted ware to the assemblage.
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Rajput arrowhead, Gupta bone needle, Mughal coins: Stunning antiques unearthed at Delhi’s Purana Qila

DNA India 30 May 2023
The national capital’s Purana Qila site holds over 2,500 years of history buried in layers ... Archaeological treasure unearthed earlier included painted grey wares (PGWs) from 900 BC, believed to be linked with the Mahabharata period ... &nbsp; ... .
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Union Culture Minister Reddy visits Purana Quila excavation siteReddy visited the excavation site and saw ...

Deccan Herald 30 May 2023
Also Read ... "The findings and artefacts unearthed in earlier excavations comprises painted grey ware, belonging to 900 BC, an earthen pottery sequence from Maurya to Shunga, Kushana, Gupta, Rajput, Sultanates and Mughal periods,” the ministry had said.
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UPSC Essentials: Daily Subject-wise quiz \u2014 History, Culture, and Social Issues (Week 3)

Indian Express 20 Apr 2023
UPSC Essentials\u00a0brings to you its new initiative of subject-wise quizzes ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 1. Minor 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 3 ... 5 ... One of the most significant discoveries made at this site was of the \u201cnew ceramic industry\u201d, which was named the Painted Grey Ware ... .
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Mehrauli: The oldest \u2018city\u2019 of Delhi, inhabited for over a thousand years

Indian Express 17 Feb 2023
The city\u2019s history far predates Shahjahanabad, with the oldest evidence of habitation \u2013 painted grey ware fragments found in Purana Quila \u2013 dating back to the Iron Age (circa 1100-800 BC) ... A sarai was a resthouse for weary travellers ... .
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The Majestic Legacy of Fatehpur Sikri: A Masterful Mughal City

Ancient Origins 11 Feb 2023
Inhabited since the Painted Grey Ware Period (1200 BC500 BC), this historic town rose to prominence under the rule of the Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great, who made it a part of his capital city in the 16th century ... The Mughal Empire ... Urdubegis ... 2015 ... .
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Excavation of historical, mythological sites on agenda, ASI gets 3rd of ministry\u2019s budget outlay

Indian Express 05 Feb 2023
On the basis of painted grey ware found at Purana Qila mounds, which archaeologically belongs to the 6th-12th century BC, Lal had claimed that Purana Qila is the Pandava kingdom of Indraprastha, ...
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2,500 years in layers: Purana Qila prepares history walk for G20 guests

Indian Express 22 Jan 2023
... of 1969-73.\u201d The first two rounds of excavations \u2014 in 1954-55 and 1969-72 \u2014 by the then ASI director, B B Lal, had unearthed traces of painted grey ware (PGW) under the mound.
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At Purana Qila, ASI reopens trenches excavated earlier to identify ‘first occupants’ of historic site

Hindustan Times 17 Jan 2023
The findings and artefacts unearthed in previous excavations included painted grey ware from 900 BC, an earthen pottery sequence from the Maurya to Shunga, Kushana, Gupta, Rajput, Sultanates, and Mughal periods ... ....
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ASI begins excavations at Purana Qila

Hindustan Times 16 Jan 2023
During this season’s excavation, the focus will also be to accomplish the traces of Painted Grey Ware finding in stratigraphical context,” said ASI in a statement on Thursday.

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