Statesman News Service
MALDA, Feb. 24: A team from Visva-Bharati University found six human skeletons during an excavation at Pichli-Kathal village under Kanaipur mo-uja in English Bazaar yesterday. The team under the leadership of Mrs Seena Panja, head of the department of archeology, VU, has been excavating the area over the past few days. The team has unearthed many historical ruins and collected various forms of potteries, stones and other materials from the area. According to the research scholars, the area is historically important in connection with the period of Iltutmish (1400 AD). The team, engaged un-der the project of UGC, would take all the findings to Kolkata for radiocarbon testing.
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