Libreria archeologica specializzata [Archeologiattiva]

Archeologiattiva has already obtained all the required authorizations from the Indian government to dig the site of Pataliputra (at the present day Patna- district of Bihar), ancient capital

of the Maurya dynasty of which the foundation date is not known, but is considered around the IV century A.C. In this city, there was a royal palace of the sovereign Ashoka, a character in the ancient history of India famous for being the first to take up the principles of Buddhism and to organize a plan to diffuse this school of thought across the main part of the Indian subcontinent, engraving pillars with Buddhist teachings in a Pre-Sanskrit language, now referred to as “Ashoka’s pillars.”

 

The site was first identified in 1950 but never scouted further through archaeological expeditions. The city and the royal palace of the famous sovereign could shed new light on the period still obscured in the ancient history of India. This mission, which is starting on the beginning of 2012, has already gained the interest of the principle figures of international archaeology field. Basically, digging Pataliputra figures out as kind of digging India’s Ancient Rome.