In January 2019, a team of archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology started excavations in Sanauli, around 60 km from New Delhi, a site that made headlines due to some astonishing finds here – ‘royal’ burials and chariots that may have been pulled by horses

“Chariots have never been found in the Indian subcontinent before Who were these mysterious settlers in Sanauli? The Sanaulians lived in a complex society with an advanced ‘warrior class’ as suggested by the weaponry excavated in the burial pits.