Nagarjunakonda

Nagarjunakonda was discovered in 1926 by an archeologist, A.R. Saraswathi. A major excavation of Nagarjunakonda was carried out over a six-year period that uncovered a number of Buddhist monuments. The excavation of Nagarjunakonda was undertaken to recover as much as possible before the area was flooded for a massive hydroelectric project.

The ruins at Nagarjunakonda include temples, stupas, pillared pavilions and marble portrayals of the Buddha's life. Other prehistoric discoveries suggest humans inhabited the area around 200,000 years ago. Tools from Paleolithic and Neolithic times were uncovered.

The findings have been reassembled on an island in the middle of the dam.