A team of the Banaras Hindu ’s Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology has unearthed a nearly 4,000-year-old urban settlement in Babhaniyav village, 13 km from Varanasi.
Facts
- As per experts, this could be one of the craft villages mentioned in ancient texts.
- The surveyors found remnants of one of the settlements mentioned in ancient literature about the holy city.
- They found a temple dating back to the 5th century through 8th century, potteries which are 4,000-year-old and walls which are 2,000-year-old.
- Apart form Babhaniyav, such crafts villages have been earlier unearthed in Sarnath, Tilmapur, Ramnagar .
