The ministry of Arts and Culture (MINAC) and Electricity Development Corporation (EDC) have dug up about 40,000 artifacts from a site where the Lom Pangar hydroelectric dam will be built.

The relics which were uncovered during prospecting and archeological search range from ceramics, steel scoria, stone-made items, coals, pottery etc. Archeologists said the artifacts date back to the Stone Age around 6,000 years before Jesus Christ.

The relics will be dated by special laboratories in a bid to have further information about human civilization of the ancient people of the Lom Valley.