{"id":6770,"date":"2025-03-28T23:51:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T06:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/?p=6770"},"modified":"2025-03-28T23:51:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T06:51:35","slug":"what-archaeological-survey-of-india-asi-doing-with-recovered-old-weapons-from-tehri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/what-archaeological-survey-of-india-asi-doing-with-recovered-old-weapons-from-tehri\/","title":{"rendered":"What Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) doing with recovered old weapons from Tehri ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) doing with recovered old weapons from Tehri ?<\/p>\n<p>Dehradun, March 29<\/p>\n<p>What the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) doing with the recovered ancient weapons from Tehri ? \u00a0This was the question asked by Raju Gusain, a senior journalist from ASI. In June\u00a02017 a huge cache of ancient weapons were discovered during digging for a road project in a remote village in Tehri district of Uttarakhand. But, a RTI reply received from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) indicates that the department has possibly not yet done any study so far on the discovered ancient sword, javelin, dagger, etc.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6772\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6772\" style=\"width: 1236px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6772 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tehri-weapons1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1236\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tehri-weapons1.jpg 1236w, https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tehri-weapons1-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tehri-weapons1-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tehri-weapons1-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Tehri-weapons1-1187x1536.jpg 1187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1236px) 100vw, 1236px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6772\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The RTI reply received by senior journalist Raju Gusain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A road construction work was underway near the Pepola Dhung village (Patti: Dhung Manar) when during digging \u00a0about 84 ancient swords, javelins, daggers, etc were recovered in June 2017. Even after passage of over seven years, the ASI is yet to start a study on the discovered artificats. The RTI reply received by Raju Gusain from Dehradun reveal, &#8220;The ancient sword, javelin, dagger, etc are kept in ASI Dehradun office. No carbon dating done as it is technically not possible conduct on iron weapons and things. No official correspondence made with headquarters. No published final report on the discovered ancient weapons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Pepola Dhung village is waiting for road connectivity since a long time and the work on the 1.2 Km Champatok-Pepola road project was underway in June 2017. After the discovery, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) took control of the discovered weapons. \u201cIf the ASI does not conduct any study on found artefacts, why don&#8217;t they return it to the villagers? Atleast the villagers will keep them somewhere and people will get a chance to see them,\u201d asked Raju Gusain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) doing with recovered old weapons from Tehri ? Dehradun, March 29 What the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) doing with the recovered ancient weapons from Tehri ? \u00a0This was the question asked by Raju Gusain, a senior journalist from ASI. 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