Copper Age relics unearthed in Bihar along Kosi river Discovery has come as a surprise find for historians and archaeologists because the area had never yielded such antiquity till now
The remains of an ancient site, said to be around 3,500 years old, have been discovered along the Kosi river in Bihar.
The site, located at Naugachhia in Bhagalpur district, around 260km east from state capital Patna, has come as a surprise find for historians and archaeologists because the area had never yielded such antiquity till now.
Located near Guwaridih village under Bihpur circle, a portion of the site was exposed due to erosion of a huge mound spread across 25 acres by a stream of the Kosi during monsoon this year. It has yielded items like terracotta pottery, burnt bricks, brick walls, brick structures, copper and iron tools, punch-mark coins, beads of terracotta and semi-precious stones, orn
Those items could be remains of the Kushan, Maurya and the Gupta era.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday said that the course of the Kosi river will be diverted to protect an area in the state’s Bhagalpur district, which could be a 2,500-year-old archaeological site.
Mr. Kumar visited Guwaridih village in Bihpur block, from where ancient terracotta objects such as utensils and ornaments, various tools, triangular bricks, copper coins, and fossils were recovered from beneath the earth.
Those items could be remains of the Kushan, Maurya and the Gupta era.
Bihar Heritage Development Society’s Executive Director Dr Vijay Kumar Choudhary gave details of the items displayed there to the Chief Minister.
Course of river to be diverted to protect 2,500-year-old Bihar archaeological site: Nitish Kumar
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Last Updated: Dec 20, 2020, 09:37 PM IST
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Kumar visited Guwaridih village in Bihpur block, from where ancient terracotta objects such as utensils and ornaments, various tools, triangular bricks, copper coins, and fossils were recovered from beneath the earth. Those items could be remains of the Kushan, Maurya and the Gupta era.
Nitish Kumar
PATNA: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday said that the course of the Kosi river will be diverted to protect an area in the state s Bhagalpur district, which could be a 2,500-year-old archaeological site.