Portal:Dravidian civilizations/Did you know
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- ...that during the 1st century C.E., Apostle Thomas, one of the twelve disciples of Christ, lived his last years in Tamilakam before he was beheaded by a Pandyan queen?
- ...that by the 10th century the Chola Empire had conquered much of present day Southern India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, parts of Burma, the Malay peninsula, Sumatra, and Java?
- ...that Bodhidarma, the founder of Zen Buddhism came from Kanchipuram of present day Tamil Nadu?