"धर्म एव हतो हन्ति धर्मो रक्षति रक्षितः। तस्माद्धर्मो न हन्तव्यो मा नो धर्मो हतोऽवधीत् ॥": Archeological Survey of India teams discover 12,000-year-old artefacts near Chennai, recoveries include gold, beads, money, bangles, sculptures from Pallava period
CHENNAI: About 5km from the Renault Nissan automobile factory at Oragadam on the outskirts of Chennai, an ancient stone tool-making place must have functioned about 12,000 years ago, an Archaeological Survey of India team has reasons to believe. What's more, the team found in the same pit layers of artifacts from at least four civilizations separated by hundreds, if not thousands, of years.