Following the successful unearthing of the history of ancient Tamil civilization in Keezhadi through five phases of excavations, the Central government today had assented to install excavation camps in the archaeological sites of Tamil Nadu including Adichanallur, Kodumanal and Sivagalai.

The proposal has come after archaeologists had exhumed and uncovered more precious and unique discoveries in each and every phase of excavations that have been rewriting and redefining the history that's been recorded as the advancements of excavations had taken the archaeologists back to much more ancient civilization where the excavations had revealed that Keezhadi has the samples of hosting oldest and ancient Tamil civilization on the banks of Vaigai river that was connected to Indus valley civilization.

It was one of the long term demands of the state and from the activists to excavate the other sites in the state that will collectively expose the ancient Tamil culture during Sangam era following which the Central government had consented to set up excavation camps in these areas that would certainly resting with more evidences of the lives of people before thousands of years.

Since 2014, the archaeological department along with the state department of Tamil culture had concluded five phases of excavations in which Keezhadi uncovered the real age of Tamil Sangam era which is about 2,600 years older and further exhumed that the Tamil Sangam people had attained the literacy and art of writing and the proven possibilities of promoting the agriculture and cattle. The fifth round of excavation was called off on October 13th 2019 after the tenure of four months in which over 900 artefacts were discovered along with pots of different sizes, earthenware and carved stones.

The previous rounds of excavation had presented with the precious discoveries that had indeed shown that the lives of Keezhadi would have lived with deep understanding and knowledge on technology and with sounding maturity and literacy.

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