Chennai, May 2: In what is being termed as the 'discovery of the century', a school teacher in Sembian-Kandiyanur village near Mayiladuthurai in Nagapattinam district, Tamil Nadu, has stumbled upon two Neolithic stone axes with Indus Valley script.
The Department of Archaeology, Tamil Nadu, has confirmed that the axes, one grey and the other black, with the script could be as old as 3,500 years and dated back to 1500 BC.
Sources in the Archaeology Department said that the four symbols found on the celt, which is actually a hand-held stone axe, was in the classical Indus script, which proved that the script, which was commonly found in Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, had reached Tamil Nadu also.
They ruled out possibilities that the celt could have belonged to North India, as the material of the stone was of 'peninsular origin'.
Iravatham Mahadevan, considered to be one of the best experts in the Indus script, said that the first sign on the celt depicted a skeletal body with ribs, seated on its haunch. The second sign was a jar, which was found in several seals in Harappa.
The third resembled a trident and the fourth a crescent with a loop in the middle.
Mahadevan inferred that this discovery was a pointer that the Indus Valley people and the Neolithic of Tamil Nadu shared a common language, which could be Dravidian and not Aryan. ==================================================== courtesy: Chennai on line
hi all other presses have taken up this story. a full article in junior vikadan ( a week before the election) tells us how much importance everybody is giving this issue
can we discuss about kandiyur as a place? I guess this is the one on thiruvaiyaru ariyalur route.(is it the same as sembiyan kandiyur) in one of our earlier discussions i remember people mentioning aaditya karikalan built his gold roof palace here and not in kanchi. that means sundara sola also passed away here.