Projects
The Bhima Devi Temple Project
With preliminary survey in 2016, the Bhima Devi Temple Project, which involved documenting, recording and creating databases for the Gurjara-Pratihara Temples of Bhima Devi and related sites in the Lower Shiwaliks, was carried out by Research Wing Team of Speaking Archaeologically from October 2017 to December 2019. Study of the sites on the basis of geology, Iconography, Iconometry, and architectural features was undertaken by the Team in addition to planning and site documentation.
Baolis of Delhi
The Project was carried out in two parts starting from October 2019: mapping and documenting sites, along with video recording and creating site vulnerability reports by Research Wing, Delhi and publication of the finds in short videos as YouTube minute-long documentaries.
Project currently halted due to COVID-19 outbreak
The Not-So-Famous Mughal Monuments
The Project began in February 2019, alongside Baolis of Delhi Project and focuses on lesser known monuments, including mosques and tombs, of the Mughal Empire, that are neglected both in terms of Conservation and as potential sites of heritage tourism
The Art Revival at Maharaja Dhaulpur Residence, Kandaghat
Maharaja Dhaulpur Residence at Kandaghat, Himachal Pradesh, an early 19th century Indo-Saracenic royal building, was converted into a court and later a monkey sterilisation centre after Indian Independence. In 2016, this much destroyed and vandalised building was handed over to house the new Government Degree College in the town. The College authorities contacted Speaking Archaeologically to restore period-wise appropriate late Medieval Art into a couple of the Indo-Saracenic Panels in the building. Consequently, a three day art installation and restoration workshop was held here in July 2017 with artists from all over India.
Skhédíos
As a launchpad for Archaeological Illustrations and the Art Wing at Speaking Archaeologically, Project Skhédios was conceived in a fast moving taxi so that artists,too, could realise that archaeology and art weren’t exactly poles apart.
Conducted in two Sketching Competitions and various online workshops from March to April 2019, Skhédios brought together artists with the aim to document that which cameras failed to capture in sites and museums
Project Gandhara
Digital Archaeology is an essential idea behind Speaking Archaeologically’s inception. Project Gandhara is the largest Digital Archiving Project at Speaking Archaeologically that has been actively engaged in bringing Gandhara School Artefacts scattered across the globe together virtually. The Project has been in operation since 2018 and has documented artefacts from over 20 museums across the world and has a collection of over 1200+ artefacts.