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Sunken City Found Off Of India
Raindeer writes "A city only known from old myths about seven pagodas and thought by Western scientists not have existed, was found off the coast of India. The myths speak of six temples submerged beneath the waves with the seventh temple still standing on the seashore. The myths also state that a large city once stood here which was so beautiful the gods became jealous and sent a flood that swallowed it up entirely in a single day. " With the purported discovery of a city off of Cuba, as well as the the finding of Herakleion underwater archaeology is doing well.
And when can I buy my flight-enabling crystal?
(intended as humor)
~ now you know
So does this mean that we will have to watch more rotten Disney movies?
Mod me mad.
Sure... it's all fun and games until someone's hometown gets sunk.
1) It's R'lyeh.
2) Leng is always depicted in the Lovecraftian stories as being on a plateau. (And presented in "The Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath" as actually being in Earth's Dreamlands).
Although it is an underwater city... I suspect that the aqua-archaeologists couldn't recognize an Elder Sign until it was far too late.
Kierthos
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
Southern Baptist -- "See? They worshipped their gods and look what our God did to them!"
Hindu -- "We were right all along."
Creationist -- "Let's see how long it will be before the evolutionists try to cover this one up."
Evolutionist -- "Where is my shovel?"
Historian -- "Legends really do rave a basis in fact, whoda thunk it?"
Captialist -- "Get your 6 temple tour here today!"
Di$ney -- "We are working on our new film, Searh for the six temples. PLease pay our Congressmen accordingly."
Mafia -- "Oh damn, there goes our hiding spot."
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Our world is so huge and our history is so enormous. Why is it that when a site of great historical impoartance is found that there are always dozens of holy rollers that try to twist it more than what it is? (That being an archaeological find.) I find it amazing that we could be so close to something so signifigant and think it wasn't there for 2000 years. Kinda makes me wonder about Atlantis.
Secondsun
There is nothing wrong with being gay. It's getting caught where the trouble lies.
So, what do they call it internally, the Nation-Wide Web?
Human settlement may be more widely spread than previously thought, but recent world events lead me to believe that civilization is probably not possible.
To celebrate the occasion of my 1000th post, I will post no more forever on Slashdot. Goodbye.
> I coulda sworn that the Bhavad Gita was about 5000 years old, dating back to near Mesopotamian age.
If you do decide to swear that, don't swear it on your yarbles or anything else you hold dear.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
According to Sources:
The age of 5000 years has been verified by the finding of a 750MHz Athlon, which we all know is ancient by now.
The city was actually sunk by angry gods because, inspite of building wonderous temples, the inhabitants fooled around with creating restrictive copyright laws.
The decendents of all survivors live in Wooster, Ohio.
The Co$ claims it's the work of rampant Thetans and you really, really, really should believe them and send them lots of money.
Most of the worlds missing left socks were found inside the sunken temples.
No claims have yet been issued by Ankh-Morpork or Klatch, but armies and navies are quietly being assembled.
Through exhaustive research, i.e. I've totally made up.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
dude.. you ever get laid?
Oh don't worry....the giant laser is on the moon, and we're using solar power.
And we shall call it...the Alan Parsons Project!
Hey! None of the comments after yours were funny because you forgot to close your tag. Thanks a lot.
Remember the tooth!
Mt. Olympus, mythical home of the gods and the tallest mountain on earth - many times the size of Mt. Everest - was recently discovered by a team of explorers in Hackensack, New Jersey.
When asked how the biggest mountain on earth cound go unreported fo so long the explorer said "Well, we just never noticed it before. It was in New Jersey after all. Nobody pays any attention to Jew Jersey with New York right next door. We plan to explore other overlooked palaces such as Canada as well."
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