January 2023

Ambari Site situated at the centre of Guwahati city is one of the important archaeological site of North-eastern part of India and only important historical habitation settlement site representing artisans’ workshop and production centre of art activities of Assam. As per archaeological evidences, the site represents different cultural sequence from the 2nd century B.C.E to […]

The Ahoms:  By the thirteenth century, the Ahoms, a Shan tribe entered into the Upper Assam through Patkai hills under the able leadership of Sukapha (CE 1128-68). Subsequent Ahom rulers brought entire Brahmaputra valley under their domain and ruled upto AD 1826. Afterwards the British rule commenced in Assam. Some of the kingdoms contemporary to

The Allahabad Pillar Inscription of Samudragupta (AD 335-75) refers ‘Davaka’ and ‘Kamrupa’ as the frontier kingdoms of the Gupta empire. ‘Davaka’ is identified as ‘Davaka’ in the Nagaon District whereas ‘Kamrupa’ with Assam respectively. The place is referred as Kamrupa – Pragjyotishapura in the epics and the classical Sanskrit works of Kalika Purana and Yogini

Ruins of an ancient stone temple are found scattered, both on the bank of Harhariya Jan  and inside the river bed located at Behbari near Singimari (about 16 kms from Septi Chowk, Rangia).. The temple ruins to be datable to c.10th-11th C.E  (according to Directorate of Archaeology, Government of Assam ). Nearby the Bhairabeswari temple,

This is  a  brick temple built  during  the  reign  of the Ahom King Rajeswar Singha (1751 – 1769 CE) in c. CE 1764. The site has evidence of a stone temple which once stood at this spot around 1000-1100 CE A brick temple has been built upon the remains of the stone temple of an