Alappuzha: Centuries-old St. George’s Orthodox Church at Cheppad has faced the risk of demolition for widening of National Highway (NH) 66, but it is now set to be declared a centrally protected monument of national importance by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). In February, as directed by the ASIContinue Reading

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has discovered pottery pieces, and tools made of stones and bones believed to be of the pre-Christian era from a mound in Jalalpur village of Cuttack district. “Discoveries of ancient artefacts indicated that a rural settlement might have thrived in that period. What isContinue Reading

Hyderabad: Twenty-six years ago, the Government of India and Georgia, along with a posse of historians, archaeologists and priests, came together to recover a fragment of history lost in time – the mortal remains of a Georgian queen, believed to be in an old church in Goa. The Archaeological SurveyContinue Reading