The discovery of 254 copper coins, buried just 20 centimetres below the ground at Khirki mosque in south Delhi, has left conservators wondering and forced the Archaeological Survey of India to dig for more.
The mosque has now turned into a site for detailed scientific exploration and ASI will dig down two feet all around the monument in the hope of new revelations. ASI will use a station survey around the mosque to pinpoint areas for exploration where the ground level is detected to be uneven or higher than usual.
Earlier while cleaning the Khirki mosque compound as part of the ongoing conservation work at the 14th-century building, a team of ASI’s Delhi circle had found the coins buried below the ground in the mosque.
This is not the first time that ASI has found medieval-era coins at Khirki Masjid. Earlier in 2003, 63 coins were discovered in the mosque, but ASI is not clear about the exact location where they were found. The newly discovered coins will be compared with the ones found 15 years earlier to see whether they are similar.
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