Iron was used on Tamil land in 3345 BCE, he added. Experts suggested that the discovery proved that usage of smelted iron could go back to the middle of the third millennium BCE. Professor ...

2017: 52-59). An iron sword from a disturbed cist at Mangadu, located in Mettur taluk of Salem district, yielded dates from c.1604 to 1416 BCE, with c.1510 BCE as the mean value. After this ...

Iron was used on Tamil land in 3345 BCE, he said. Professor Emeritus in South Asian Archaeology in Cambridge University Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti said this discovery, for the first time in the world ...