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Keezhadi museum
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- The Keezhadi museum, constructed in Chetti nadu architectural style was inaugurated by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin at the excavation site, Sivagangai District.
- The museum contains artefacts unearthed from the Keezhadi excavation sites since 2018.
- Keezhadi had the ancient civilisation that thrived on the banks of the Vaigai.
- Vaigai riverbed was urbanised during the early 6th century BCE, around the same time that the Ganges civilisation was urbanised.
- Artefacts classified into categories of Keezhadi and Madurai, Agrarian and Water Management, Ceramic Industry, Weaving and Iron Industry, Sea Trade and Lifestyle.
- The excavations at Keeladi pushed the Sangam Age to 6th Century BCE from the earlier assessment of between 3rd Century BCE and 3rd Century CE.
- More than 1000 symbols and 60 pot shells with lettering in Thamizhi, an ancient Tamil script, have been found.
- The ASI carried out explorations at 293 sites along the Vaigai Valley in Theni, Dindigul, Madurai, Sivagangai and Ramanathapuram districts in 2013-14.
- The excavation was carried out at Pallichanthai Thidal of Keeladi.
- The State Department of Archaeology took over from the fourth season in 2018.
- From the sixth season, Konthagai, Agaram and Manalur were added as clusters of Keeladi.
- While Konthagai is largely a burial site, Agaram and Manalur show the existence of an active human habitation.
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