India, April 24 -- Nagpur University researchers claimed on Thursday that they have found nearly 3,000-year-old archaeological remains in the state's Yavatmal district, which they believe date back to the Iron Age.

Dr Prabash Sahu, head of the Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology said that a team conducted excavations at Pachkhed village in Babulgaon taluka from 2023 to 2024.

Sahu said the team found a mound outside an archaeological site in Pachkhed village, which also houses around 8.73 metres of cultural deposits found during the excavation last year.

"We divided these deposits into four periods...period one-Iron Age, which was divided into sub periods. The cultural sequence of the findings starts with the I...