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Archaeological Museum
This museum was founded in
1940 with a core assortment assembled by the Kamarupa
Anusandhan Samiti .The museum's collection is chiefly
archaeological, with sections devoted to epigraphy,
numismatics and iconography. The sculptures from
the Assam region force into four principal categories
- stone, wood, metal and terracotta. In early inscriptions
of the Gupta period Assam was referred to as Kamarupa.
Shiva is supposed to have carried the dead body
of his wife sati and danced in range and sadness.
Her body was spread throughout the land by the force
of the dance. Her yoni fell at the place where the
Kamakhya Devi temple now stands, on a hill close
to Guwahati - the present capital of Assam, on the
banks of the Brahmaputra.
Location :
Situated 18-km east
of the centre, Guwahati |
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