Sekta Archaeological Living Museum

The Sekta Archaeological Living Museum, known in Meitei as Sekta Kei, is a protected archaeological site that now serves as an open-air museum in Sekta village, Manipur. It lies about 16 km from Imphal on the Imphal–Ukhrul road, 4 km north of Lamlai, beside the Iril River's left bank. Six clearly marked burial mounds have been identified here; one, covering 0.35 acres, was excavated in 1991 by the Archaeological Survey of India with the state archaeology department and Manipur University.

The dig revealed graves of the proto-Meitei or Sekta people, among the earliest groups in Manipur, who buried everyday goods with their dead. The burial and habitation remains, dated to the late centuries BC, fall into seven successive cultural periods. Finds include several kinds of urn burial holding funerary objects of copper, brass and iron, and a Buddhist reliquary made of bell metal or bronze. The site has helped historians reassess the early history of Manipur's people.