Keezhadi Excavation Phases

 An archeological study was first directed in 2013, by Archeological Survey of India, nearby the Vaigai waterway from Theni region to Ramanathapuram area where the stream meets the ocean. During the review, 293 destinations, including Keezhadi, were recognized to have archeological deposits. The initial three periods of exhuming at Keezhadi were led by the Archeological Survey of India while the stages after that were directed by the Tamil Nadu Archeology Department.

Periods of Keezhadi removal

First stage

In June 2015, an Archeological Survey of India bunch drove by Amarnath Ramakrishnan began the main period of the exhuming nearby close to the Vaigai stream in Keezhadi.

Second stage

The subsequent stage started on 2 January 2016. Different records, including clinical containers, antique kitchen wells, and plant and government seals, were found. Toward the finish of the subsequent stage, in excess of 6,000 curios were found. It was affirmed that these curios were 2,200 years of age when they were tried by radiocarbon dating.

Third stage

The third period of the removal was directed under the chairmanship of Sri Ramanan of the Archeological Survey of India from January 2017. The work finished on 30 September 2017. In the third stage, 16 burrowing destinations were chosen, taking up a complete area of 400 square meters, which is 80 sections of land of land.

Fourth stage

The fourth period of the uncovering was directed somewhere in the range of 2017 and 2018, bringing out 5,820 ancient rarities. This stage was led by the Tamil Nadu Archeology Department while the initial three stages were led by the Archeological Survey of India. Six carbon tests gathered from the fourth period of exhuming at Keezhadi were shipped off Beta Analytic, Miami, Florida, USA for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) dating; one example, gathered at a profundity of 353 cm, was dated at 580 BCE. The spray painting blemishes on the ancient rarities acquired from the removal site were viewed as like the Indus Valley script by the tractors and accordingly loaned trustworthiness to the since a long time ago held view that the language of the Indus Valley Civilization was proto-Dravidian.

Fifth stage

In June 2019, the Tamil Nadu Archeology Department started the fifth period of the removal drove by Dr R Sivanantham. This stage was finished in four to five months in which 15 channels was intended to be burrowed. In the fifth phase of exhuming, Sangam-time blocks and in excess of 700 articles were found and these have been sent for testing. Primer report of the fifth period of unearthings is approaching fulfillment.

Sixth stage:

Sixth period of uncovering alongside concurrent unearthing in adjoining towns (Manalur, Kondhagai, and Agaram) started on 19 February 2020.

Seventh stage:

As of June 2021, seventh period of uncovering is under progress.

Discoveries:

Block facade found in the uncovering.

Right around 48 square pits have been cut and different constructions and antiquities have been found, including ices, block facades, rooftop tiles, stoneware, mirror embellishments, skeletal apparatuses, iron Vel, and Tamil-Brahmi letter-scratched plates. This spot is viewed as Pandian line's city called "Perumanalur", the trailblazer of writing. The utilization of terminated block, the size of the structure complicated, a variety of pots put so that it probably been utilized either as a light or for painting, and different discoveries propose that the settlement is of a more acculturated populace than was recently suspected during the Sangam time frame.