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Uttar Pradesh
PRATAPGARH(U.P.): A three member team of the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) has started inspecting a mound in a village in this district where villagers have exacavated remains of a mediveal civilisation. The ASI team from Lucknow visited the Kashipur village, 50 km from the district headquarters, yesterday and started inspecting the ancient remains consisting of 53 open halls, idols, a teracotta statue, earthen pottery, stones bearing Bramhi script, a well, besides bricks and coins of Kushan period. Meanwhile the Head, Department of Ancient History, Allahabad University Prof R P Tripathi, claimed that the remains belonged to the mediveal period. Taking into account the growing crowds reaching the spot and the subsequent safety of the remains, the district administration had stopped the excavation work and intimated the Arhceological Survey of India officials to do further study. District Magistrate R S Verma told UNI here that the ancient remains have been seized and decision regarding continuance of excavations on the mound and further research would be done by the ASI officials. The historians at the Allahabad University have also been intimated of the remains, Mr Verma added. While Prof Tripathi claimed the remains to be belonging to the mediveal period, another renowned historian Dr G C Shukla said that further excavations in the area could lead to the discovery of a township of Kushan period. Dr Shukla also said that Shak dynasty ruler Ibrahim Shaki's kingdom spanned from Pratapgarh to Dalmau and the remains could also belong to the period of his reign. - UNI
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