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The Sekta Archaeological Living Museum () is a museum in
Sekta Sekta is a village in the Imphal East district of Manipur, India. Sekta Archaeological Living Museum is situated in the village. References

Villages in Imphal East district {{Manipur-geo-stub ...
village in the
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of
Manipur Manipur () is a state in northeastern India with Imphal as its capital. It borders the Indian states of Assam to the west, Mizoram to the south, and Nagaland to the north and shares the international border with Myanmar, specifically t ...
. It is a protected archaeological site which is one of the six mounds identified in the area. It is known for its secondary burial finds. This site was excavated by the
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in association with the State Archaeology Department of Manipur. The Department of History of the
Manipur University Manipur University () is a central university located in Imphal, Manipur, India. It was established on 5 June 1980, under the ''Manipur University Act, 1980'' (Manipur Act 8 of 1980), as a teaching cum-affiliating university with territoria ...
was also associated with the excavations carried out in 1991.


Location

The
Sekta Sekta is a village in the Imphal East district of Manipur, India. Sekta Archaeological Living Museum is situated in the village. References

Villages in Imphal East district {{Manipur-geo-stub ...
village where the archaeological excavation was carried out, which is now an open air living museum, is situated about from
Imphal Imphal (; , ) is the capital city of the Indian state of Manipur. The metropolitan centre of the city contains the ruins of Kangla Palace (officially known as Kangla Fort), the royal seat of the former Kingdom of Manipur, surrounded by a ...
and north of Lamlai, on the Imphal-Ukhrul road to the northeast of Imphal on the left bank of the Iril River.


Features

The Sekta archaeological site is reported to have 6 cleanly demarcated burial mounds. Of these, only one burial mound was excavated. The area covered by this mound is , which is now a protected site under the Archaeological Survey of India. The excavations have unearthed finds which are identified as of the proto- Meitei tribes, one of the earliest ethnic groups of Manipur, also called the Sekta people, whose cultural practice of burying their dead in graves was revealed in which other essential items of social and economic life were also buried. With these excavations of the burial cum habitation area dated to late centuries BC, archaeologist and historians have been able to reassess the historical link to the people of Manipur. It has also been evaluated that in the burial mound more than one group of people lived with exclusive burial areas depending on their occupation. The excavations were divided, stratification wise, to seven cultural periods in succession. The finds from these consisted of different types of
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burials, which also contained several funerary items made of copper, brass and iron and a relic casket made of bell metal, or bronze of
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origin.


See also

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*
Kakching Garden Kakching ( Meitei pronunciation:/kək.ciŋ/) is a town in the southeastern part of the Indian state of Manipur. It serves as the headquarters of Kakching district and is a major commercial hub in the state. In 2018, Kakching was declared as the ...
*
Keibul Lamjao National Park The Keibul Lamjao National Park () is a national park in the Bishnupur district of the state of Manipur in Northeast India. It is in area, the only floating national park in the world, and an integral part of Loktak Lake. It is currently und ...
- world's only floating national park in Manipur, India *
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*
Loktak Folklore Museum The Loktak Folklore Museum () or the Thanga Folklore Museum () is a folk museum in Thanga Island in the Loktak lake of Manipur, India. It cares for and displays a collection of artistic, cultural and historical artefacts associated with the ...
*
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*
Manipur Zoological Garden Manipur Zoological Garden () is a zoo in Iroisemba, Manipur. It is the second habitat of Sangai (''Cervus eldi eldi''), the world's only dancing deer species, after the Keibul Lamjao National Park, the world's only floating national park. It is a ...
*
Phumdi Phumdi ( Meitei pronunciation: /pʰúm.dí/), also known as Phumthi ( Meitei pronunciation: /pʰúm.tʰí/) or simply Phum ( Meitei pronunciation: /pʰúm/), are a series of floating islands, exclusive to the Loktak Lake in Manipur state, in ...
- Floating biomasses in Manipur, India *
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