🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Jama Mosque, Kanchipuram
The Jama Mosque, also known as the Jama Masjid and officially as the Sunnat Jama'ath Juma Masjid, is a Friday mosque, located in the town of Kanchipuram, in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.
🇮🇳 India · Rock shelter
Gudiyam Cave
Gudiyam Caves are rock shelters in South India and known for prehistoric stone tools and culture. They were first identified by British geologist Robert Bruce Foote.
🇮🇳 India · Lost civilisation
Kumari Kandam — Palk Strait Pseudo Extension (India–Sri Lanka Lemuria)
Pleistocene aeolian limestone barrier-beach (5300 BCE barrier) + Tamil Sangam flood memory (~300 BCE) projected as lost continent pseudo 30ka pseudo at 9.09N 79.52E · Natural aeolian limestone barrier-island chain (Adam's Bridge 5300 BCE) + Tamil nationalist continental legend (Devaneya 1940)
Tamil Lemuria Kumari Kandam fantasy on Palk Strait Adam's Bridge — aeolian limestone bridge 50 km at –4 to –7 m claimed as submerged Kumari capital causeway.
🇮🇳 India · Submerged site
Poompuhar – Sangam Drowned Port of Kaveripumpattinam
Iron Age Sangam to Early Chola (c. 500 BCE – 500 CE) · Tamil Sangam / Early Chola
Sangam Chola drowned wharf 1.5 km at –2 to –4 m off Kaveri mouth – U-breakwater at –4 m.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Brihadeeswarar Temple, Thanjavur
Chola 1003–1010 CE · Hindu (Shaiva, Tamil Chola)
Chola granite imperial vimana 66 m still tallest pre-modern; capstone ramp mystery.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Brihadeeswarar Temple of Gangaikonda Cholapuram
Chola c.1035 CE · Chola Hindu (Tamil)
Gangaikonda Cholapuram Brihadeeswarar (1035, Rajendra Chola I) – sister to Thanjavur: 55m vimana, concave curve vs Thanjavur's straight, 9m Nandi, Simhakeni tank.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram
Pallava Dynasty 580–728 CE (Mamalla and Rajasimha phases) · Tamil / Pallava Hindu (Shaiva/Vaishnava)
Pallava (7th–8th c CE) coastal temple town with 40 rock-cut shrines: Shore Temple granite seaside, Five Rathas monolithic chariot-temples cut from single boulders, Arjuna's Penance 27 m bas-relief,…
🇮🇳 India · Submerged site
Korkai – Early Pandyan Drowned Port, Tuticorin
Early Historic Sangam (c. 600 BCE – 1000 CE) · Early Pandyan / Sangam Tamil
Early Pandyan pearl harbour 8 km inland silted – beacon mound and salt-pan wharf under pasture.
🇮🇳 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
Adams Bridge (Rama Setu) – Natural Limestone Shoal Claimed Ram's Bridge
Pleistocene–Holocene shoal (natural) + epic Ramayana 7th–4th c. BCE; pseudo claim 2002 '18k Vishvakarma engineering' · Pleistocene natural shoaling + Tamil–Sinhalese tradition
29-km Palk Strait shoal chain — Ramayana epic bridge literature misread as 18k BCE engineered causway vs natural tombolo reef.
🇮🇳 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 · Temple complex
Meenakshi Amman Temple
Early Pandya origins 6th c., current Nayak 1623–1655 CE · Hindu (Shavite-Shakti) under Nayak kingdom of Madurai
Sprawling Nayak temple-city with 14 colourful gopurams and musical stone pillars.
🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Kallanai South Sluice — Grand Anicut Vennar Distributary Head
Chola Early historic to Medieval (100 – 1030 CE) · Tamil Chola hydraulic statecraft
South Vennar regulator of 2nd-c Chola anicut with Rajendra I inscriptions 1012 CE.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Airavatesvara Temple Complex Darasuram
Chola 12th c. (1146–1172 CE) · Chola Hindu (Rajaraja II)
Airavatesvara (1146–1172, Rajaraja II) – Chola chariot temple (Skt ratha) where front mandapa wheels are stone chariot wheels, music steps that resonate seven tones, and yali_balustrade.
🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Kallanai Kollidam North Sluice Extension
Early Historic to Chola Medieval · Chola (Early and Medieval)
95-m north Kollidam offtake with 12 dovetail sluice bays saving delta from avulsion.
🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Kallanai North Channel — Grand Anicut Kaveri North Branch
Classical Sangam to Colonial · Early Chola, British colonial (Cotton)
Chola Karikalan 2nd CE north Kollidam regulators with 12 vents and 1804 Cotton arches, oldest working dam distributary.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Kanchipuram
Kanchipuram (IAST: kāñcipuram; [kaːɲdʑipuɾam]), also known as Kanjeevaram or Kancheepuram, is a City in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu in Chennai Metropolitan Area.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Kodumanal
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 · Hydraulic works
Kallanai Grand Anicut East Channel
Early Historic to Medieval · Early Chola, Medieval Chola, Vijayanagara
800-m-east Kallanai east channel with 9-sluice Chola regulator feeding east delta.
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Mahabalipuram Group of Monuments
Pallava dynasty 630–700 CE · Hindu (Shaiva) under Pallava
Pallava seaside rock-cut trials: Shore Temple surviving tsunami and 27-m bas relief.
🇮🇳 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.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient city
Phu Khao Thong
Late Iron Age port (c.400 BCE–200 CE, bead industry 200 BCE) · Indian Ocean bead-trading port companion to Khao Sam Kaeo
Western Kra Isthmus bead port (400 BCE–200 CE) — Tamil-Brahmi sherds and rouletted ware at Ranong.