Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin pushes back the antiquity of iron, placing the iron age at 5,300 years ago.

When jingoism reigns supreme, science takes a backseat. The recent announcement by Chief Minister M. K. Stalin that Iron Age ...

MK Stalin is making archaeology a pillar of Tamil pride. Sivagalai’s findings suggest Tamil Nadu entered the Iron Age while ...

Tamil Nadu's archaeological milestones in 2025 include the discovery of the Indus Valley script and ancient iron usage.

Regarding the question of the Iron Age in India, recent evidence from Tamil Nadu marks a significant shift. The majority of sites now date to the mid-third millennium BCE, which has opened new ...

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 ...

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. Referee threatened to award touchdown to Eagles ...

Recent Radiometric Dates from Tamil Nadu’ in Chennai, Stalin said he was making the remarkable anthropological announcement, not only to India but to the whole world, that the “Iron Age began ...

Chennai, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday claimed that the Iron Age began in the region and the use of iron on Tamil soil could be dated to the first quarter of 4th millennium BCE, ...

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

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 ...