LALITGIRI ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM

About:

• Lalitgiri is one of the earliest Buddhist settlements in Odisha situated about 120 km north of Bhubaneswar in District Cuttack.
  
  
• Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has constructed the Site Museum at Lalitgiri for display and protection of retrieved antiquities. The museum has been organized into six galleries.
  
  
• Huge sculptures of the Buddha and various Buddhist deities, architectural fragments of Viharas and Chaityas are arranged period-wise across six galleries.
  
  
• The most important finding of the Lalitgiri are relic caskets found inside the stupa during excavations in the year 1985. Three Khondalite stone caskets were found out of which two have one set of steatite, silver and gold caskets each with the relics inside in the form of charred bones.