When jingoism reigns supreme, science takes a backseat. The recent announcement by Chief Minister M. K. Stalin that Iron Age began in Tamil Nadu is a case in point.

CHENNAI: Declaring that the Iron Age began in the Tamil lands, Chief Minister MK Stalin on Thursday said that this conclusion was based on the results from the world-renowned institutions. "The use of ...

Recent radiometric dates from Tamil Nadu’, authored by K. Rajan and R. Sivanantham, Mr. Stalin said: “The Iron Age began on Tamil soil!”. He went on to cite carbon dating results from ...

Iron Age in Tamil Nadu may have begun around 3,345 BCE, a thousand years earlier than previously believed, new carbon dating from burial urns in Sivagalai reveals. This challenges the notion that ...

With recent findings on the Iron Age creating excitement among archaeologists and scholars worldwide, Tamil Nadu has charted ...

Recent carbon dating of samples from burial urns in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin district suggests the Iron Age could well have begun in the state. As per the study, Iron Age began at least 1,000 years ...

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Digging into the past with warped ideology should have no place in today’s politics, which is best left to academics and professionals.

The Tamil Nadu Archaeology Department is planning extensive excavations at Korkai, the ancient port city of the Pandyan ...

Recent Radiometric Dates from Tamil Nadu’ in Chennai, Stalin said he was making the remarkable anthropological announcement, not only to India but to the whole world, that the “Iron Age began ...