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Archaeological museum of Kannauj have vast variety of clayey idols which proves that at ancient time Kannauj was famous for art and culture like Mathura, Kashi and Kaushambi. Right from Maurya age it was a fully developed locality. The clay models found here shows that it was a very progressive district of ancient time, even Historical Chinese visitor Hwenswang praised this district during his visit to India.
As per types of these antiquity idols we can categorized them into following categories.
a. Very Ancient Age
b. Maurya Age (325 BC)
c. Shudag Age (184 BC)
d. Kushar Age (100 AD)
e. Gupta Age (319 AD to 450 AD)
f. Post Gupta Age (450 to 650...
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Kannauj district is an administrative district of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India, along the river Ganges. The historic town of Kannauj, northwest of Kanpur, is the administrative center. The district was carved out of Farrukhabad district on 18 September 1997. The native dialect of this district is Kannauji.
What is Kannauj famous for in history?
It remained capital of Emperor Harshvardhana. Now a days Kannauj is known for the distilling of scents and is an internationally acclaimed market center for Tobacco, Perfume and Rose Water. Kannauj has a rich archeological and...
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It's a good museum to understand the glorious ancient history of kannauj. It's been renovated recently. It has many artifacts from many hundreds of years ago, about the different dynasties which ruled kannauj from different ages like gupta age, Harsha age etc. It has many sculptures, coins etc from historical times. Also has vivid artificial statues of scenes from the life of common people, people in different professions etc from Kannauj history. Overall a must visit for all interested in this Indian history. It's temporarily closed due to covid but...
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