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Economy & Infrastructure

Mortimer Wheeler's 1945 Dig at Arikamedu Found Italian Red Pottery, More Than 200 Beads and a Warehouse Over 150 Feet Long at an Indian Port That Traded With Rome, and Later Excavations Dated Its First Settlement to the 3rd to 1st Centuries BCE

Ancient & Medieval India

The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, a Greek Merchant's Guide of the Mid-First Century CE, Gives Sections 38 to 64 to the Indian Coast and Names the Ports, Cargoes, Rulers and Sailing Distances From the Indus Delta to the Ganges

Ancient & Medieval India

A Vienna Papyrus Totals One Ship's Cargo From Muziris on the Kerala Coast at 1,154 Talents of Silver, and Excavations at Pattanam Since 2007 Have Recovered Roman Pottery From a Site Proposed as the Port