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Hindu Notes from General Studies-01 Editorials are covered separately. HINDU NOTES are available free date wise| CLICK HERE Megalithic era sarcophagus unearthed at Viyur News A rare sarcophagus (stone coffin), said to be 2,000-year old from the Iron Age–Megalithic era, was discovered from a rock-cut cave at Viyur village of Kollam, near Koyilandy, in Kozhikode district in Kerala. Beyond News The coffin containing bone fragments was found during an excavation. So far, such a rare finding has been discovered only from two sites in Kerala. The bone fragments could be of either a man or a woman. They will be sent for carbon dating using accelerator mass spectrometry at the Beta Analytical Laboratory in California. Excavation at the site commenced after a hemispherical rock-cut chamber was discovered in a compound while flattening…