In January 2019, a team of archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology will restart excavations in Sanauli, around 60 km from New Delhi, a site that made headlines due to some astonishing finds here – ‘royal’ burials and chariots – in May this year.

The find prompted archaeologists to debate whether these chariots were horse-driven, a question whose answer could rewrite what we know of the era so far. While there is much that still needs to be investigated about the Sanauli find, Disha Ahluwalia, one of the archaeologists working on the site, takes us through what has been uncovered so far and what the team will be looking for during their next dig.