THE HINDU News: Remains of ancient city unearthed = "around 2500 years old"

[L. Coyote]

Remains of ancient city unearthed - http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200802081202.htm

Bhubaneswar (PTI): Remains of an ancient city believed to be around 2500 years old have been unearthed by archaeologists at Sishupalgarh near here.

The remnants at the historical site including 18 pillars came to light during a fresh research work undertaken by a team of archaeologists including Monica L Smith of The University Of California and R K Mohanty of Deccan College, Pune.

"A huge city existed at the site around 2500 years ago. The latest findings at the site comprise the most visible standing architectural structures discovered in India so far," Smith said while explaining various aspects of the findings.

The remnants suggest that the city, with four gateways, had 20,000 to 25,000 settlers, while classical Athens housed about 10,000 people, ....

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[Judi Lynn]

1. Hope to hear more about this. The images of later ruins from that area are amazing:

http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-37,GGLD:en&q=Bhubaneswar+

Simply breathtaking.

It would be so worthwhile to have enough time to learn about this architecture and history of this area. Overwhelming.