Researchers in India’s Tamil Nadu have begun extracting DNA from 2,500-year-old human remains and unveiled digital facial reconstructions of two skulls from Kondagai to show how some of the first ...

In a modest-sized university lab in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, researchers are using a tiny drill to scrape ...

New research by India's top archaeologist BR Mani reveals that the Harappans and Vedic people were using gold coins, known as ...

"It gives people from the south [of India] something to feel proud about, that our civilisation is just as ancient and important as the one in the north [of India]," he says.

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The archaeological site of Keeladi has unearthed remnants of an urban settlement, fuelling competing historical claims.