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Keezhadi Excavation

Introduction In Tamil Nadu there are only two major archaeological sites. One of it is the village of Kodumanal in Erode district. The other one is the village of keezhadi in Sivaganga district. Keezhadi has been specified in many of the sangam texts of Tamil. This village of keezhadi is on the banks of river vaigai. In keezhadi the excavation was done on the elevated land of Pallisandhai Thidal. The findings here shows the ancient and the sangam lifestyle of tamizhans. Till now two phases of excavation have been completed.The archaeological team was divided into 3 teams and 43 pits were dug. There they found  the damaged walls, basement of the houses, wells, broken pots, women ornaments etc. All there dates back to sangam era. This place is predicted to be as perumanallur which is the old Madurai and capital of Pandya's before moving to present day Madurai. It is a surprising fact that the present day Madurai was actually a forest called Kadamba Vanam. The people from perumana