Prominent among the discoveries are a Buddhist stupa atop the Dungeshwari Hill in Gaya, sculptures and structures in Jehanabad, Nawada, Nalanda and Patna
Copper Age relics unearthed in Bihar along Kosi river Discovery has come as a surprise find for historians and archaeologists because the area had never yielded such antiquity till now
The remains of an ancient site, said to be around 3,500 years old, have been discovered along the Kosi river in Bihar.
The site, located at Naugachhia in Bhagalpur district, around 260km east from state capital Patna, has come as a surprise find for historians and archaeologists because the area had never yielded such antiquity till now.
Located near Guwaridih village under Bihpur circle, a portion of the site was exposed due to erosion of a huge mound spread across 25 acres by a stream of the Kosi during monsoon this year. It has yielded items like terracotta pottery, burnt bricks, brick walls, brick structures, copper and iron tools, punch-mark coins, beads of terracotta and semi-precious stones, orn