Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 04:33pm on 04 Oct 2026,Sunday India
Archaeologists searching the seabed off Poompuhar in Tamil Nadu have recovered pottery fragments believed to have come from West Asia. The pieces were found in 10 to 12 metres of water, about 1.8 to 2.2 km from the present shoreline, during the third phase of underwater exploration. Among the finds are parts of a torpedo jar, a distinctive vessel linked to long-distance maritime trade across the Indian Ocean. Poompuhar was once the Chola port of Kaveripoompattinam, parts of which now lie beneath the Bay of Bengal. The discovery gives researchers a new material clue to a trading world that ancient Tamil literature described nearly two thousand years ago. (PC: The Indian Express)
