Keeladi, 12 km south-east of Madurai, is the cynosure of all eyes. The Archaeological Survey of India, in 2014, began excavations in Keeladi and continued the digging till 2016. However, in 2017, the ASI announced there was no significant findings in Phase-III after the first two phases threw up 5,800 artefacts. The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court asked the Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology (TNSDA) to take over the excavations from 2018. In total, eight phases of excavations have been conducted in the past eight years.

This episode deals with the report submitted K Amarnath Ramakrishna, the Superintending Archaeologist who discovered Keeladi, on the first two phases of the excavation in the village. Listen to know exciting details about the urban site near Madurai.