K Amarnath Ramakrishna

K. Amarnath Ramakrishna is an archaeologist with over two decades of experience in the field and currently serves as Director (Archaeology) at the Archaeological Survey of India’s National Mission on Monuments and Antiquities in Greater Noida. He has held several senior positions across ASI offices in Delhi, Hyderabad, Goa, Chennai, Bengaluru, Guwahati and Mysuru.

He was in charge of the 2014–15 and 2015–16 excavations at Keeladi in Tamil Nadu, which brought significant attention to the Sangam-period settlement in the Vaigai River valley. He has authored extensively on Keeladi and South Indian archaeology and has received several honours for his contributions to archaeology and heritage research.