Chennai, Dec. 21 -- Reiterating that Tamil landscape was the cradle as well as the pinnacle of Indian civilization, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK president MK Stalin on Sunday asserted that archaeological excavations offer proof for this and the second museum, Porunai', established by his government at Tirunelveli is an effort at scientific validation of Tamil's antiquity.

The Chief Minister, describing the Tamil Vs Sanskrit North as a 2000-year-old war, made it clear that the DMK government was making every effort to keep aloft Tamil antiquity and pride.

"Our culture is distinctive and progressive. The Tamil landscape was the cradle as well as the pinnacle of the civilisation in the Indian subcontinent. We have literary evidence to a...