http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/President-Gives-Muziris-Expo-the-Skip/2016/02/28/article3300833.ece
Published: 28th February 2016
KOCHI: President Pranab Mukherjee made last-minute change in his schedule to skip a scheduled visit to Muziris exhibition at Kodungalloor after inaugurating the Muziris Heritage Project on Saturday, ostensibly due to doubts raised by certain sections on inclusion of Pattanam, near Paravur, in the Muziris project.
P J Cherian of the Kerala Council of Historical Research (KCHR), who led the Pattanam excavations, termed the eleventh-hour change as a “painful affair” for the Pattanam team which “participated in the exhibition just because the President was seeing the exhibition.”
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/pattanam-is-not-muziris-asserts-mgs/article8287845.ece
February 27, 2016 05:46 IST
Pattanam is not Muziris, asserts MGS
Historian and former chief of the Indian Council for Historical Research (ICHR) M.G.S. Narayanan says that the Kerala government has been misled by the Kerala Council for Historical Research (KCHR ) into believing that the archaeological site of Pattanam, a few miles away from Kodungalloor, was the location of the famous ancient harbour of Muziris.
“It’s unfortunate that they have now sought to drag the President into the controversy around the so-called Muziris project by including a visit to Pattanam in his itinerary,” he rues.
“The location of Muciri, called Muziris by Greek and Roman geographers, had already been clearly recorded by poets of the Sangam Age who mentioned Yavana (Roman) ships coming to Muciri at the mouth of the river Periyar, and going back laden with pepper after paying in gold.
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