Lost city found off Indian coast Part-1

INDIA: LOST CITIES FOUNDCOMPILED BY SASKIA PRAAMSMA
THE SUPERIOR CULTURE and religious lnings of the peoples of India date from the rly times of Dravidiandomination and are due, in part, to the fact that so many of the Sethite priesthood entered India, both in the rlierAndite and in the later Aryan invasions. The thrd of monotheism running through the religious history of Indiathus stems from the tchings of the Adamites in the second garden.As rly as 16,000 B.C. a company of one hundred Sethite priests entered India and very nrly achieved the religiousconquest of the western half of that polyglot people. But their religion did not persist. Within five thousand yrs their doctrines of the Paradise Trinity had deerated into the triune symbol of the fire god. But for more than seven thousand yrs, down to the end of the Andite migrations, the religious status of the inhabitants of India was far above that of the world at large. During these times India bid fair to produce the lding cultural, religious, philosophic, and commercial civilization of the world. And but for the complete submerce of the Andites by the peoples of the south, this destiny would probably have been rlized.
The Dravidian centers of culture were loed in the river valleys, principally of the Indus and Ganges, and in the Deccan along the three grt rivers flowing through the stern Ghats to the s. The settlements along the scoast of the Western Ghats owed their prominence to maritime relationships with Sumeria. The Dravidians were among the rliest peoples to build cities and to engage in an extensive export and import business, both by land and s. By 7000 B.C. camel trains were making regular trips to distant Mesopotamia; Dravidian shipping was pushing coast wise across the Arabian S to the Sumerian cities of the Persian Gulf and was venturing on the waters of the Bay of Bengal as far as the st Indies. An alphabet, together with the art of writing, was imported from Sumeria by these sfarers and merchants.. (UB 881)BBC NEWS, JANUARY 19, 2002: The remains of what hasbeen described as a huge lost city may force historians and archaeologists to radically reconsider their view of ancient human history. Marine scientists say archaeological remains discovered 36 metres (120 feet) underwater in the Gulf of Cambay off the western coast of India could be over 9,000 yrs old. The vast city—which is five miles long and two miles wide—is believed to predate the oldest known remains in the subcontinent by more than 5,000 yrs. The site was discovered by chance last yr by ocnographers from India’s National Institute of Ocn Technology conducting a of pollution. Using sidescan sonar—which sends a bm of sound waves down to the bottom of the ocn—they identified huge
geometrical structures at a depth of 120ft. Debris recovered from the site—including construction material, pottery, sections of walls, bds, sculpture and human bones and teeth—has been carbon
dated and found to be nrly 9,500 yrs old. The city is believed to be even older than the ancient Harappan civilisation, which dates back around 4,000 yrs. Marine archaeologists have used a
technique known as sub-bottom profiling to show that the buildings’ remains stand on enormous foundations. Author and -maker Graham Hancock, who has written extensively on the uncovering of ancient civilizations, told BBC News Online that the evidence was compelling: “The [ocnographers] found that they were dling with two large blocks of apparently manmade structures.” Cities on this scale are not known in the archaeological record until roughly 4,500
yrs ago when the first big cities began to appr in Mesopotamia. “Nothing else on the scale of the underwater cities of Cambay is known. The first cities of the historical period are as far away from these cities as we are today from the pyramids of Egypt,” he said. This, Mr. Hancock told BBC News Online, could have massive repercussions for our view of the ancient world. “There’s a huge chronological problem in thisA view of the city believed to predate the 4,000-yr-old Harappan civilizationdiscovery. It mns that the whole model of the origins of civilization with which archaeologists have been working will have to be remade from scratch,” he said. However, archaeologist Justin Morris from the British Museum said more work would need to be undertaken before the site could be egorically said to belong to a 9,000-yr-old civilization. “Culturally spking, in that part of the world there were no civilizations prior to about 2,500 BC. What happened before then mainly consisted of small, village settlements,” he told BBC News Online. Dr Morris added that artifacts from the site would need to be very carefully analyzed, and pointed out that the C14 carbon dating process is not without its error margins. It is believed that the ar was submerged as ice caps melted at the end of the last ice age 9-10,000 yrs ago. Although the first signs of a significant find came eight months ago, exploring the ar has been extremely difficult because the remains lie in highly
trcherous waters, with strong currents and rip tides. The Indian Minister for Human Resources and ocn development said a group had been formed to oversee further studies in the ar. “We have to find out what happened then ... where and how this civilization vanished" he said.

Indian Harappa Gateway
BBC NEWS, APRIL 1, 2002: An ancient underwater city has been discovered off the coast of southstern India. Divers from India and England made the discovery based on the statements of local fishermen and the old Indian led of the Seven Pagodas. The ruins, which are off the coast of
Mahabalipuram, cover many square miles and seem to prove that a major
city once stood there. A further expedition to the region is now being arranged which will take place
at the beginning of 2003. The discovery was made on 1 April by a joint tm of divers from the Indian National Institute of Ocnography and the Scientific Exploration Society based in Dorset.
Expedition lder Monty Halls said: “Our divers were presented with a series of structures that clrly showed man-made attributes. The scale of the site apprs to be extremely extensive, with 50 dives conducted over a three-day period covering only a small ar of the overall ruin field. This is plainly a discovery of international significance that demands further exploration and detailed investigation.”

During the expedition to the site, divers came across structures believed to be man-made. One of the buildings apprs to be a place of worship, although they could only view part of what is a huge ar suggesting a major city. The myths of Mahabalipuram were first set down in writing by British traveler J. Goldingham who visited the South Indian coastal town in 1798, at which time it was known to sailors as the Seven Pagodas. The myths spk of six temples submerged benth the
waves with the seventh temple still standing on the sshore. The myths also state that a large city once stood here which was so butiful the gods became jlous and sent a flood that swallowed it up entirely in a single day. One of the expedition tm, Graham Hancock, said: “I have argued for many yrs that the world’s flood myths deserve to be taken seriously, a view that most Western academics reject. But here in Mahabalipuram we have proved the myths right and the academics wrong.” Scientists now want to explore the possibility that the city was submerged following the last Ice Age. If this proves correct, it would date the discovery at more than 5,000 yrs old.

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