Do you know?
More than 50,000 years old artifacts are found in Tamil Nadu. History of India is surprisingly vast and exquisite than was ever taught to us.
Dating of these artifacts recovered from the sites (293 Tamil Sagam sites, Vaigai River, Madurai) is a challenge to C14,..
The Tamil/ Dravidian culture was and is a part of Sanatan Dharma and existed along with it.
Now Kezhadi,in Sivaganga District,near Madurai has revealed a river civilization beneath the ground.
And it belongs to Sangam Era.
Yet Poompuhar is around 20,000 years old.
Tamil Brahmi is older than this,as Cilappadikaram, a Classical Epic of Sangam Era was written, not in Brahmi, but in evolved later Tamil.
In a year-long survey conducted in 2013, the state Archaeology department had identified nearly 293 Sangam Age towns along the course of river Vaigai.
The excavation at Keezhadi has been carried out at two localities in the farm.