Muziris was an ancient harbour and an urban centre on the Malabar Coast.
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Muziris was an ancient harbour and an urban centre on the Malabar Coast.
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Muziris found mention in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, the bardic Tamil poems and a number of classical sources.
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Muziris was a key to the interactions between South India and Persia, the Middle East, North Africa, and the Mediterranean region.
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The important known commodities exported from Muziris were spices, semi-precious stones, pearls, diamonds, sapphires, ivory, Chinese silk, Gangetic spikenard and tortoise shells.
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Derivation of the name "Muziris" is said to be from the native Dravidian name of the port, "Muciri".
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Muziris has seized the sacred images after winning the battle for rich Muciri.
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However, by the time of Pliny, Muziris was no longer a favoured location in Roman trade dealing with Southern India.
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Muziris disappeared from every known map of antiquity, and without a trace, presumably because of a cataclysmic event in 1341, a "cyclone and floods" in the Periyar that altered the geography of the region.
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Identification of Pattanam as Muziris is a divisive subject among some of the historians of south India.
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When KCHR announced the possible finding of Muziris based on Pattanam finds, it invited criticism from some historians and archaeologists.
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