🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Besnagar
Mauryan–Sunga–Satavahana–Gupta 600 BCE–500 CE · Magadhan → Sunga → Satavahana → Gupta
Ancient Vesanagara city mound at Betwa-Bes confluence — Sunga–Satavahana twin capital of Vidisha (600 BCE–500 CE).
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🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Mauryan–Sunga–Satavahana–Gupta 600 BCE–500 CE · Magadhan → Sunga → Satavahana → Gupta
Ancient Vesanagara city mound at Betwa-Bes confluence — Sunga–Satavahana twin capital of Vidisha (600 BCE–500 CE).
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Maurya 3 c. BCE → Sunga 187–78 BCE → Gupta 4–6 c. CE · Maurya → Sunga → Indo-Greek → Gupta (Malwa)
Ancient Vidisha (Besnagar) capital with Heliodorus Garuda column (113 BCE) — first Indo-Greek Krishna inscription 6.5 m monolith.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
PGW 1100–600 BCE (Kuru) → NBPW 600–300 BCE → Historic · Kuru Mahajanapada (PGW culture) → NBPW Early Historic
Hastinapura — capital of Kuru Mahajanapada (c.1100–600 BCE, PGW 1100–600 BCE, NBPW 600–300 BCE) at Hastinapur, Meerut district, excavated 1950–52 by B.B. Lal (ASI).
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Thanjavur — Brihadisvara North Gopura Ancillary in Tamil Nadu, Thanjavur, Brihadisvara, India is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Megalithic Iron Age (500 BCE–100 CE) → Early Historic Sangam Chera 300 BCE–300 CE · Megalithic Tamil → Sangam Early Tamil (Early Historic South India)
Megalithic–Early Historic industrial village and cemetery (c.500 BCE–300 CE) on the Noyyal River near Erode — 40 ha settlement + 40 cairn-circle Megalithic burial ground with menhirs, excavated…
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Early Medieval (Rashtrakuta) · Rashtrakuta Shaivite Brahminical (Kannarid influence)
Urban Deccan basalt 8th-c Shiva quarry-temple 40×28 m with circular Nandi mandapa, unfinished Rashtrakuta.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Vidarbha Iron Age 800–300 BCE → Maurya 300–187 → Satavahana 187 BCE–220 CE → Vakataka 250–300 CE · Vidarbha megalithic–Iron (Black-and-red) → Satavahana
Vidarbha Iron Age iron-smelting town (800 BCE–300 CE) near Nagpur — earliest tuyere smelting and Indo-Roman rouletted ware with 22 coin hoards.
🇮🇳 India · Pyramid
Early Harappan (4000–2800 BCE, Kunal culture, Hakra ware) · Early Harappan (Kunal–Hakra ware, pre-Kot Diji)
Kunal Mound — Haryana Saraswati in Haryana, Fatehabad District, Saraswati palaeochannel (Kunal), India is a Early Harappan (4000–2800 BCE, Kunal culture, Hakra ware) pyramid/mound site attributed to…
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Gupta to Pala (400–1200 CE) · Gupta to Pala Buddhist (Magadha)
Xuanzang's Teladhaka—250×200 m mound, 5th–12th c continuous, 2009–14 ASI three-storey cells and Hevajra bronze.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Mauryan Ashoka → Sunga 3rd–1st c BCE · Sunga Buddhist Hinayana — early narrative sculpture
Bharhut Satna Stupa — Sunga–Satavahana Buddhist stupa (3rd c BCE Ashokan nucleus, 2nd c BCE Sunga rail decoration) at Bharhut 15 km Satna, discovered 1873 by Cunningham with 40 ft stupa, red…
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Sanchi — Gateway North Torana Eastern Face in Madhya Pradesh, Raisen, Sanchi, India is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attribute…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Nalanda — Monastery 6 Ancillary Courtyard in Bihar, Nalanda, Nalanda Mahavihara, India is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attribut…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic
Kiln Workshop Complex North in Ganga Plain, India is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Mature Harappan 2650–2100 BCE (with Early/Late phases 3500–1800 BCE) · Indus Valley / Harappan
Harappan metropolis (2650–2100 BCE) on Khadir island in Great Rann of Kutch, the fifth largest Harappan site covering 100 ha with citadel, middle and lower towns and monumental water management.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Classical · Classical
Classical ancient-city at Haryana.
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Mesolithic (7000–2800) → Chalcolithic (2800 BCE–500 BCE) · Mesolithic Mewar microlithic → Ahar-Chalcolithic (Mewar)
Type-site for Mewar Mesolithic (c.7000–500 BCE) on the Mahasati dune above the Kothari River west of Bhilwara — India's largest excavated Mesolithic habitation (1967–70 by V.N. Misra and L.S.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Ceramic Neolithic IA (9000–7000) → Mesolithic-Neolithic IB–II (7000–3000) → Chalcolithic III (3000–1500 BCE) · Gangetic Ceramic Neolithic (Lahuradewa culture) → Sarayupar Chalcolithic
Earliest rice-cultivation site in South Asia (c.9000–2000 BCE) in the Sarayupar plain at Sant Kabir Nagar — 2.5 ha lakeside mound with 3.5 m deposit excavated 2001–06 by Rakesh Tewari (UP State…
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional · Classical
Meenakshi Temple Thousand Pillar Hall South in Tamil Nadu, Madurai, India is a Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional temple complex attributed to Classical.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Mauryan 3rd c BCE → Sunga–Gupta 2nd c BCE–6th c CE · Mauryan → Sunga → Gupta
Sanchi's western gate — 60-stupa Halali cluster with 30 m Great Stupa and Sariputra relics (9 km W).
🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Harappan Mature (2600-1900 BCE) · Harappan
Lothal Dockyard Eastern Warehouse Annex in Gujarat, Ahmedabad, India is a Harappan Mature (2600-1900 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Harappan.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Lower Paleolithic 400 Ka → Chalcolithic Jorwe 1400–1000 BCE → Megalithic → Satavahana → Medieval · Soan Acheulian → Jorwe Chalcolithic (Deccan) → Satavahana
Deccan textbook sequence on Pravara (400 Ka handaxes → 1400 BCE Jorwe village) — 130-house Chalcolithic with urn child burials.
🇮🇳 India · Rock art
Mesolithic to Early Historic (5000 BCE – 500 CE) · Mesolithic Himalayan foragers, Early Historic Katyuri related
Almora Himalayan ceiling 25-m with linked dance figures Mesolithic-Historic.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Chalcolithic Ahar-Banas 3000–1700 BCE · Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic — Mewar Plain Banas Basin
Gilund Modiya Magara Mound — largest Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic settlement (3000–1700 BCE) in Banas Basin, locally Modiya Magari (bald mound), 25×18 ha dual mound excavated 1959–60 by B.B.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Mauryan 3rd c BCE → Satavahana 1st c BCE–3rd c CE · Mauryan–Satavahana Deccan Buddhist (Bhima valley)
Sannati — major Early Historic Buddhist stupa complex (3rd c BCE–3rd c CE) on Bhima River at Sannati, Kalaburagi district, excavated 1986–2002 by A. Sundara (ASI Dharwad) and later Karnataka Dept.
