Arikamedu

Arikamedu is an archaeological site in Southern India, in Kakkayanthope, Ariyankuppam Commune, Puducherry. It is two kilometres from the capital, Pondicherry of the Indian territory of Puducherry. Sir Mortimer Wheeler 1945, and Jean-Marie Casal performed archaeological excavations there in 1947–1950. The website online become diagnosed because the port of Podouke, referred to as an "emporium" inside the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea and Ptolemy. Digs have located Amphorae, Arretine ware, Roman lamps, glassware, glass and stone beads, and gemstones on the web page.

It informed the French East India Company that villagers have been extracting old bricks from the Virampattinam. The earliest mention of the Arikamedu archaeological web page became with the aid of Le Gentil of France, who the King of France had assigned to observe awesome astronomical occurrences in the global. Gentil, after journeying Arikamedu, showed the sooner report of the Consul of the Indo-French colony.

In 1765, while he visited the ruins on the website online, he found the humans of the village amassing huge historical bricks exposed on the river bank. The villagers informed him that they'd retrieved the bricks from an old citadel of the king the Vira-Raguen. In 1937, Jouveau Dubreuil, an Indologist, additionally from France, purchased gem stone antiquities from neighborhood youngsters, and additionally collected some exposed at the web site's surface.