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\n\tAn archaeological dig in western Thailand turned up a pair of gold rings in the vicinity of human bones.<\/p>\n
\n\tAs reported by the Associated Press<\/em>, one of the rings bears script that reads \u201cpusarakhitasa,\u201d which means \u201cthe one protected by Pushya.\u201d Written in Bhrami, an ancient Indian system of writing, the allusion to Pushya refers to \u201cone of the most auspicious zodiac signs in Indian astronomy,\u201d according to the Thai government\u2019s Fine Arts Department. The other gold ring is bare.<\/p>\n \n\tExperts have theorized that the rings, discovered at the Don Yai archaeological site about 80 miles southwest of Bangkok, were owned by a merchant of the ancient Indian caste known as the Vaishyas. They were found as part of a dig that followed the discovery of ancient bronze drums nearby.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThe site was dated to a late prehistoric era in Thailand, a period of human settlement also known as the Iron Age, established to be around 1,500 to 2,500 years ago,\u201d according to the AP. Other finds from there include eight human skeletons, jewelry, pottery, and funerary artifacts thought to be related to burial ceremonies for wealthy people.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Thai Fine Arts Department said it expects the excavation at Don Yai to be complete in August and that it plans to showcase the finds to the public sometime in the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/gold-rings-thailand-human-bones-1234791201\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/thai-ring.jpeg?w=1024″] An archaeological dig in western Thailand turned up a pair of gold rings in the vicinity of human bones. As reported by the Associated Press, one of the rings bears script that reads \u201cpusarakhitasa,\u201d which means \u201cthe one protected by Pushya.\u201d Written in Bhrami, an ancient Indian system of writing, the allusion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2030242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2030242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2030242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2030242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2030242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}