The Archaeological Survey of India has declared the archaeological site and remains at Sadikpur Sinauli in Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat district to be of “national importance” .
- At this site evidence of the existence of a warrior class around 2,000 BCE was discovered in 2018 have.
- The ASI’s notification under provisions of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958 on September 2, 2020 brings the 28.67-hectare-site under Central protection.
- The site would now be maintained by the ASI and development works around it would be subject to Central rules.
- The ASI unearthed remains of chariots, shields, swords and other items indicating the presence of a warrior class at the site that is 68 km from Delhi.
- The ASI had issued a draft notification on June 6, 2019 about its plans to declare the site to be of national importance and sought feedback from the public for a period of two months.
- Three chariots, legged coffins, shields, swords and helmets were among the objects found at the site.
- ASI termed the site the “largest necropolis of the late Harappan period datable to around early part of second millennium BCE”.
- The objects, which date back 3,700 to 4,000 years, have been kept at the ASI Institute of Archaeology currently.
- With the declaration of the site as one of national importance, it comes under the ASI’s protection.
(Source: The Hindu)
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