🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Kallanai Grand Anicut
Sangam Period, Early Historic to Colonial · Tamil Chola (Sangam)
2nd century Chola granite anicut (329 m, 150 CE) on Kaveri River, oldest functional dam in world irrigating one million acres.
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Kumari Kandam / Lemuria – Tamil Lost Continent
Scientific 1864–1912 (Sclater), Tamil revival 1890s–1940s (Kandam literature) · Tamil Sangam myth + Victorian zoogeography
Tamil Lemuria south of Cape Comorin — Sclater's 1864 lemur bridge remade as 49-Sangam drowned continent.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Jhusi (Pratishthana)
Neolithic I (7000–4000) → Chalcolithic II (2500–1200) → NBPW III (600 BCE–300 CE) → Gupta IV · Vindhyan–Gangetic Neolithic → Gangetic Chalcolithic → Kuru-Panchala NBPW
Massive Neolithic–Early Historic mound (c.7000 BCE–1200 CE) on the Ganga's east bank opposite Prayagraj Sangam — 4 ha mound with 16 m cultural deposit excavated 1995–2003 by Allahabad University (G.R.
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Kumari Kandam Second Pseudo – Axial Tilt Lemuria Variant
Pseudoarchaeology 1890–1953 (claimed Sangam I 10,000 BCE) · Tamil purist revival + Scott-Elliott Lemuria
1890s Tamil Lemuria variant claiming 49 Tamil sangams on mid-Indian Ocean continent — axial tilt pseudo.