MCD Engineer, Who Discovered Dara Shukoh’s Grave, Stumbles Upon A Possible Medieval Era Treasure Trove In UP
They weaved a story around it, according to which, some supernatural power decided to construct a temple in one night but when they couldn’t do it, they left it unfinished the next day morning. Everyone believed in it and now it is a part of the village folklore.
They weaved a story around it, according to which, some supernatural power decided to construct a temple in one night but when they couldn’t do it, they left it unfinished the next day morning. Everyone believed in it and now it is a part of the village folklore.
Last month, a civil engineer
from the South Delhi Municipal Corporation, Sanjeev Singh, visited one of the neighbouring villages in the district and was amused by their story.
Singh had earned accolades in 2020 from the country’s top archaeologists for discovering Dara Shukoh’s grave inside the Humayun Tomb in Delhi.
“I requested the villagers to show me the site. When I reached there I was really surprised to see the two heads of statues, a broken hand, ancient brick and remains of a Hindu temple scattered all around,” Singh said.
He added, “Prima facie it looked like an archaeological site of the early medieval era.”
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Singh reported the matter to the Superintendent Archaeologist of the Meerut circle of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) who agreed to survey it and document its findings.
Dibishada B. Garnayak, Superintendent Archaeologist, Meerut Circle, under which the area falls, says that the ASI team is surveying Khera Jalalpur and other villages as these sites have the potential to be quite rich in terms of archaeological remains of the late Gupta period and even earlier than that.
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