Hastinapur

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Archaeology

1952, 2006, 2018 findings

Sandeep Rai, July 20, 2021: The Times of India

The findings of an early, presumably A.D. 2006, excavation at Hastinapur
From: Sandeep Rai, July 20, 2021: The Times of India

The first excavation at Hastinapur goes back to 1952, when archaeologist Prof BB Lal concluded that the “Mahabharata period” was around 900 BCE and the city was washed away by a flooded Ganga. Lal, known for his “discovery” of 12 temple pillars beneath the Babri Masjid that coincided with the revival of the Ram Janmabhoomi demand in 1990 and provided the interpretive framework for the courtappointed Ayodhya excavation team, was a strong believer in the historicity of religious epics and myths.

“No concrete development took place after that,” KK Sharma, associate professor of history at Multanimal Modi College in Modinagar, said. Then, in 2006, the discovery of an ancient burial ground in Sinauli, about 90km from Hastinapur, and that of a bronze “horse-driven war chariot” in 2018 catalysed the theory that the findings were from the “Mahabharata period” — because the epic mentioned chariots — and pushed back the period itself to 2000 BCE. Sharma was part of the 2006 Sinauli excavation.