Talking about the excavation, ASI archaeologist Dr Abhijit Ambekar, who co-authored the research paper and who led the project since 2016, said during the excavation the team found archaeological artefacts, pottery, copper, gold, silver and iron objects and intricately designed bangles.
Nearly 900 km southwest of New Delhi, an excavation in Gujarat's Vadnagar unveiled evidence of cultural continuity in the Indian subcontinent since 800 BCE. Vadnagar is the hometown of Indian Prime Minister Modi. The findings thus imply that the "Dark Age" was a myth and that cultures continuously existed in the region without total annihilation during the last 5,500 years.
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