 The first mention about Arikamedu was in <unk> , in a communication from the Consul of the Indo @-@ French colony of Pondicherry . It informed the French East India Company that villagers were <unk> old bricks from the Virampattinam . The earliest mention of the Arikamedu archaeological site was by Le Gentil of France , who the King of France had assigned to observe notable astronomical occurrences in the world . Gentil , after visiting Arikamedu , confirmed the earlier report of the Consul of the Indo @-@ French colony . 
