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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.
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(intended as humor)
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So does this mean that we will have to watch more rotten Disney movies?
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Let's see how quickly the evolutionists try to cover this one up.
For those with questions, I suggest reading Josh McDowell's "Evolution: A Theory In Crisis."
Sure... it's all fun and games until someone's hometown gets sunk.
It was late, nearly seven in the morning. The sun was rising; it crept through my window, seemingly in defiance of the darkness that was beginning to elude it. Its effluence of light had proven itself to be more beautiful every day. A mere twenty years of age, I'd not yet experienced a job in which people trusted you, especially with their well-being. Searching futily for the cable that connected the remote control to the new Zenith television that I'd purchased from my parents, I realized that my appointment was only an hour away. I hadn't any time to leisurely brew coffee and catch up on the country's events. As I stepped out of bed, I cringed slightly. The tile floor always seemed gelid to my bare feet during the winter, especially after one of those egregiously arctic nights when it seemed as though the season would never enter the transition to spring.
According to popular rumor, William Robinson, the man who would later interview me, was facilely impressed by somebody who wore fashionable clothing. I had purchased a pink polo shirt and dress pants a week prior from the Sears catalog. Today I would exhibit them as I attempted to become a security assistant. I stepped into the five year old maroon, 1947 Plymouth that I'd inherited from my grandfather. It operated immaculately. The bleak, uneventful drive to Robinson's office seemed like an eternity; I was quite eager to commence my interview.
"So you're Peter Geralds," a stocky man greeted me. He pointed at a chair. "Come, sit. May I offer you something to drink? Water? Coffee?"
"No, thank you." I replied with all of the calmness that I could muster.
He chuckled. "A martini?"
I had anticipated that William would be a businesslike, humorless man. What a pleasant surprise it was to meet somebody in an executive position that was so laid-back. "So, you want to be a security..." He flipped through my application. "... assistant, do you?"
"Why yes sir, I do." I hadn't been in a mood as pleasant as this for months, perhaps even years.
Then his smile turned to a rather maniacal glare. "You won't live long enough to be one." He hastily produced a Smith and Wesson revolver from his desk drawer and fired twice. I screamed as the bullets penetrated my chest. The man then walked over to my chair and pushed me to the floor. After a moment, I was drowning in my own warm blood, unable to think of anything but the searing pain...
... "Yeah, yeah. No, patient two-four-seven isn't conscious. Yeah, I want a cheeseburger. With mayo. Go get them, Rhonda. Now!" A man said commandingly.
"Fine, you anal-retentive... Ugh." The second voice was that of a woman; she seemed to be unwilling to comply.
I opened my eyes attenuately. Unbearable pain indicated that I hadn't utilized them for days. My unfocused eyes created a vision of a white blur overhead. Perhaps I'd entered the afterlife. "Are you an angel?" I queried.
Whoever was standing over me began laughing feverishly. "I'm Thomas, your doctor. You certainly have a good sense of humor for somebody who has been unconscious for two days." His voice increased in intensity. "Hey Rhonda, before you leave, mark two-four-seven as conscious!"
"Where am I? Where's Robert? What happened?!" I was fretting. After all, he was my direct responsibility. If he had died, I promised myself that I would leave the security business permanently both in mourning and to prevent another tragedy occuring on my watch.
"You're at Christus Jasper Memorial. I'm afraid to say that Robert Arishima..." I interrupted the doctor in mid-sentence. "No!" I screamed, on the edge of tears. "He can't be dead! Not Robert! Why not me?"
Thomas placed his hand on my shoulder, comforting me. "I'm afraid to say that Mr. Arishima was released without injury two days ago, so you can't see him presently. Would you like me to call him?"
I felt as though I was a simpleton. How humiliating. Hopefully the doctor would practice a lot of discretion with both his peers and other patients, as well as Robert. "Yes, if it isn't bothersome."
"No, not at all," he replied. "Also, I have your incident report here, would you like to read it?"
Predictably, I responded with one word: "yes." Maybe it would shed light on the accident that Robert and I were involved in. My eyes, fortunately, were now focused. I grasped the paper as Thomas handed it to me and began reading the hastily constructed, rather inaccurate report:
"Incident report submitted by Harris on 3 April at 4 AM.
Two security attendants at Jasper Walmart Supercenter (Robert Arishima, Peter Geralds; blue EZSECURE golf cart, 1992) involved in vehicular collision with Paul Cryer (silver Mercedes-Benz SUV, 2001). Cryer reports that an unprovoked altercation (Arishima and Geralds being the aggressors) between the three preceded the accident..."
"Hey, Peter?" It was Robert! I ceased reading as he entered the room. "I've got bad news. You've um, been suspended as a security guard until EZSECURE investigates what happened. I'm sorry... Are you okay?"
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Now finally I have a reason to buy that 300ft personal submarine!
Just maybe, human civiliation is a lot older and spread much wider, earlier, than we tend to believe.
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What is it with the BBC (and other news organizations) stories where every sentence is a paragraph by itself? Is this some rule of journalism I'm not familiar with? Seems rather jarring.
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My firewall won't allow me to go to sites hosted outside of the U.S. so could somebody post the text of the (BBC) article? Much appreciated.
IANA historian, but didn't the Indus valley civilization itself only come into existence around 2500BC? For such a monumental city to have existed in 3000BC would really be remarkable.
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According to the article, the date of discovery was April 1st. Can't think why they didn't announce it immediately...
Trev - used to be interesting. Honest.
From where we sit in modern times, ancient myths and legends are often considered little more than fairy tales. But given what we know about the effects of natural catastrophes - namely their ability to eradicate all traces of any civilization that once stood in their path - there is probably much that is buried, inundated or otherwise obscured from view.
One interesting question that is perhaps particularly revealing is, why are are so surprised whenever we find this stuff?
Perhaps they've really found Numenor
IMHO Numenor or Atlantis one is as real as the other
It might be R'ley or Leng.
Or even something worse.
Did they found any seals of the elder gods out there ?
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Robert Ballard who found the wreck of the Titanic. According to the article he is searching the Black Sea "where four 1,500-year-old wooden ships were found two years ago. He's looking for evidence of a great flood, possibly linked to the story of Noah's ark"
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yes, this is pretty interesting, this is basically scientific proof of the genesis flood (you know, the one that evolutionists swear up and down "could NEVER have happened!") heh. 8-) my faith in Scripture grows each and every day.
How did it get underwater like this?? Can't be rising sea levels as this was before the industrial revolution, so there wouldn't have been anything to increase temperatures and raise sea levels. So how did this happen?? I'm so confused.
I've never understood why academia seem so intent
on believing that civilization has only been
around
for the last 4 or 5 thousand years or so. After
all, if the genetic record is correct homo sapiens
have been around for a few hundred thousand years
at least and I find it far harder to believe that
in all that time all humans did was hunt and gather as opposed to them building cities and
towns. Carving blocks of stone , building roads
etc isn't rocket science and if some race had built
a city 100,000 years ago VERY little of it would
still be around today (Ice Ages notwithstanding).
Look at how little is left of most Roman ruins and
they're only 2000 years old!
Though Graham Hancock may come out with a lot of
BS at times , I think in this case he's spot on.
Personally, if I heard a legend about 7 temples, and the 7th temple was not only already discovered standing on land, but also one of the most photographed temples in India, then I'd be inclined to believe the other 6 temples existed, wouldn't you? Call me wacky...
Back in high school Chem class, we had to argue pro or con for a Nuke plant to be built locally (one, rural Nevada... why bother?). Me, always being an argumentative dickhead, chose to Devil's Advocate the task, and sided with the whiny, anti-nuke hippies.
Aaaanyhow, one of the arguments that I had used was that there are extinct civilizations that have only died out as recent as FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, and we, with all our fancy European-style education have yet to come within reasonable nearness to decyphering their written language.
So, I argued, what if... Something catastrophic happens again, and in a few thousand years, after civilization has dragged itself back up through the ashes to the point where its out exploring the seas again in galleys and colonizing the farthest reaches of the globe. What if... What if they stumble across the Yucca Mountain dump?
Now, they have absolutley no knowledge of what that yellow and black circle, divided up into sixths means. They're seeing metal signs with an indecypherable alien text on them. They find these vaults, and manage to tunnel in and are exposed to radiation. Potential catastrophy there...
Anyhow. Since I got to thinking about that, then I start thinking some more. What if it had already happened once? What if Jericho weren't really the "First City?" What if we humans became significantly advanced (pre-industrial age or so?) then got wiped out by the encroaching glaciation? Which would explain the decided lack of structures and monuments, with the notable exception of the alleged sunken cities in the Sea of Japan, off India and Cuba.
I read somewhere that the temples at Ankor could be upwards of 12k years old. Which predates the "Fertile Crescent" civs by at least a thousand years...
Just the ruminations of a crazy drunk that's been up for three days. Responses would be keen, a full-fucking-fledged discussion would rock.
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Does anyone else find it interesting that the article says:
"The discovery was made on 1 April by a joint team of divers from the Indian National Institute of Oceanography and the Scientific Exploration Society based in Dorset."
Sounds like it might have been a joke that the BBC picked up on about 10 days late...
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Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
I am so very glad to see something that doesn't obsess over games or get overly chipper about a new piece of hardware that is 0.01 percent faster. Finally, something with a human element.
Isn't that this city was there. It is that it's story has been passed down through oral tradition from what they think is 5000 years ago.
Its always the same isn't it. Years and years and no citties to be seen. Then suddenly three turn up at once! ;-)
First, the surviving temple is certainly not 5000 years old: it dates from the 7th or 8th century AD.
Second, Hindu civilization itself is old but not that old. For temples of this kind, 1000 BC would be an optimistic early limit; 3000 BC is out of the question.
From this article it seems that the claim of 5000 years comes from Graham Hancock, a controversial writer about "lost civilizations". I'd like to see the opinion backed by some credible evidence.
I went to the city because I wished to live without deliberation.
Found on April 1 with a team leader by the name "Monty Halls?" Sounds like a prank to me...
Acts 17:28, "For in Him we live, and move, and have our being."
Moderators, mod this offtopic piece of crap down accordingly.
From the article: Expedition leader Monty Halls said...
Light cup, beer drink, thin so chain, neck turtle fat, man I won't say it again
Earthquakes, volcanoes, plate movements etc, happen too in addition to climate changes which affect sea level.
If this proves correct, it would date the discovery at more than 5,000 years old.
Actually I thought the sea level rose about 120 meters at the end of the last ice age (starting about 20,000 years ago)
There are some interesting graphics here: One, Two, Three
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Stupid moderators getting confused again.
Middle Earth contained trolls.
Numeneor was based on the legends of Atlantis.
Atlantis was a fabled lost city supposedly underwater.
Just because the post mentions middle earth does not a troll make
(sigh)
Wait for it, yup Ill be modded 'flamebait' how orginal.
Don't feed the moderators
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One of the people quoted in that article, Graham Hancock, is often on the Art Bell show. Regardless of what you think of Art or the show, it is always interesting when Graham is on.
http://www.artbell.com/
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Here is the text as requested by some users:
An ancient underwater city has been discovered off the coast of south-eastern India.
Divers from India and England made the discovery based on the statements of local fishermen and the old Indian legend 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.
'International significance'
The discovery was made on 1 April by a joint team of divers from the Indian National Institute of Oceanography and the Scientific Exploration Society based in Dorset.
Expedition leader Monty Halls said: "Our divers were presented with a series of structures that clearly showed man-made attributes.
"The scale of the site appears to be extremely extensive, with 50 dives conducted over a three-day period covering only a small area 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 appears to be a place of worship, although they could only view part of what is a huge area suggesting a major city.
Jealous Gods
The myths of Mahabalipuram were first set down in writing by British traveller 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 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.
One of the expedition team, Graham Hancock, said: "I have argued for many years 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 years old.
"Time is long and life is short, so begin to live while you still can." -EV
This place was on telly in the UK a couple of months ago, with G.Hancock pushing his interpretation of evidence past breaking point and then some.
Its just a natural formation. Theres no tools, no carvings, no evidence buldings, nothing other then things that look like monoliths, but are actually just undercut and fallen sedimentary rock layers. Theres loads of other natural formations just as odd, like the Giants Causeway.
Otherwise, this thing has such large irregular steps in it, it must have been originally inhabited by 12ft Lizard Men.
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...in the extreme northern parts of Canada Alaska and Siberia. Those lands were once the northern shores of Pangea/Gondwannaland/whatever before the slpit-up and drift, and were once a lot further south and warmer than they are now.
what does it take to sink an entire city?
"an act of God"
Genesis 6
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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.
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There is nothing wrong with being gay. It's getting caught where the trouble lies.
And why is this posted here -- is it truly that slow of a news day??
Uh, oh...
All this talk about flood myths, and, hey, wasn't there a lot of water in that Attack of the Clones preview?
You didn't read that comment, did you? Ballard is looking for evidence of a great not global flood.
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The case against seems to be that (a) the earliest settlements accepted by most archeologists go back perhaps 6000 or 7000 years, and these are flimsy houses built of wood, reeds, thatch etc - not monolithic dressed stone covering many thousands of acres. Secondly, if these civilisations existed, they would surely have built in OTHER places than right next to shore lines -- where are their ruins on land? In one of the programs he looked at a stone-age Japanese society (one I hadn't heard of previously) - however these are " only " 5000 years ago, and built using wood.
Of course there are plenty of lunatics, new age freaks and other riff-raff -- the "jesus was a spaceman, UFOs built Atlantis" types -- who should of course deserve nothing more than laughter, pity and contempt. (Try to explain the distinction to my girfriend though... *sigh*... a great way to teach oneself patience and forbearance... =)
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." -- Goethe
I heard about this last night during the Art Bell Coast to Coast Raido show.. Is it possible that you heard it there? www.artbell.com
So, what do they call it internally, the Nation-Wide Web?
Divers from India and England made the discovery based on the statements of local fishermen and the old Indian legend 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.
'International significance'
The discovery was made on 1 April by a joint team of divers from the Indian National Institute of Oceanography and the Scientific Exploration Society based in Dorset.
Expedition leader Monty Halls said: "Our divers were presented with a series of structures that clearly showed man-made attributes.
"The scale of the site appears to be extremely extensive, with 50 dives conducted over a three-day period covering only a small area 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 appears to be a place of worship, although they could only view part of what is a huge area suggesting a major city.
Jealous Gods
The myths of Mahabalipuram were first set down in writing by British traveller 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 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.
One of the expedition team, Graham Hancock, said: "I have argued for many years 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 years old.
Go figure. Well despite being a poorly documented academic, his stuff tends to read like creationist babble and tends to frequently single source for theories that support his ideas, he's doing a pretty good job of pursuing his theories and attempting to make the traditional scientific community (archaeological) reconsider their current theories. If nothing else his books put together various theories in a way that make you think. He's been pretty obsessed about Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings by Charles Hapsburg.
I'm impressed, he may eventually get past crack pot status.
Archaeology is doing so well because archeologists finally grew brains and started incorporating geology into their work.
For years, archaeologists have thought like this "these people liked to live by rivers, so lets dig around by rivers and see what we find!", when in fact, they should have been thinking like this "these people liked to live by rivers and hung around here about 10,000 yeras ago, lets figure out where the rivers were 10,000 years ago and dig there!".
Sea level has risen significantly since the last ice age. Most population centers in the world are right on the coast, and that hasn't really changed for a long time. Therefore, to find old population centers, one must look where the shoreline USED to be, which is now underwater.
Don't be surprised if you start hearing about more and more of these types of discoveries - none of them are Atlantis.
...civilization on the other hand...
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Similar stories of a great flood are recorded within many cultures besides the Judeo-Christian Bible. For example, as I am sure everyone here as already heard in many history/literature classes, The Epic of Giglemesh. The American Indians also have a tail of a man getting into a boat because of a great flood. One could debate as to whether the flood covered the earth, only part of the earth, or possibly it appeared to these people that is was the whole earth because the known earth to them at this time was quite vast, but in reality it was only a part.
Mr Simpson, please take your purchases, get out, and come again!
Maybe we can take all those H-1-B Indian bastards and drop them in the sea with an heavy weight around their bodies and let them worship at the underwater temples!
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This site although in Japanese, does have some very nice photos of the shore temple that didn't sink. One thing to note is, these monuments were all carved from one stone.
As seen in this photo here this is all ONE rock.
Very impressive.
I think all the Nostradamus sooth-sayers are slacking off, I'm pretty sure the current world events (including this) were all described.
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Every couple years somebody annouces the "discovery" of an ancient underwater city. They're usually characterized by massive, blocks of stone neatly organized in the formation of a wall. (Couldn't tell if that was what this article was talking about - not enough detail.)
However, what usually happens is the general scientific community decides that it's actually orthogonal jointing of beachrock - which it turns out is pretty common (Bimini Road, Tasmanian Parking Lot, the referenced story about Cuba, etc.). There was actually a pretty interesting segment on TLC (I think) about this a couple weeks ago.
A similar, fairly recent find is the controversial "pyramids" found off the coast of Japan. There are many web sites about this site, but a pretty decent one can be found at http://www.lauralee.com/japan.htm. There is a lot of debate about whether these structures are man-made or natural. Either way, there are some pretty cool pictures:
http://www.lauralee.com/japan/japan1.htm
http://www.lauralee.com/japan/japan2.htm
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I don't know if its 5000 years old. This Guardian article suggests it is more recent: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,682 031,00.html
. htm
Here are some other links for people who think this is a hoax. The group who carried out the dive: http://www.ses-explore.org/current/southeastindia
The actual site about the dive: http://www.india-atlantis.org/
Nuff Said - Jer
Humans evolved to their current form (more or less) almost half a million years ago. That leaves plenty of time for societies to rise up and disappear into dust in a relative blink of an eye. It seems we only remember those who leave massive monuments that endure across the millennia.
I know it seems impossible right now, but I wonder if we will be forgotten 10,000 years from now. I bet those who build the pyramids thought they had the universe under their thumbs, just like we do today. Call me pessimistic, but somehow I don't see our civilization as the enduring type.
Maybe a day will come when people worship our telecommunications "gods" as they glide across the sky.
As a Christian myself, I do not accept this date or the methodology used to derive it. In fact, I find it an insult to my intelligence. I'm surprised that you do not have a better sense of self-worth.
-H
This city is part of the Indus valley civilisation. Most scholars believe the Indus language and culture were Dravidian, that is pre-Aryan and (probably) pre anything like Hinduism.
Hancock disagrees, but then, as you say, he's not the most reliable source of evidence.
Did the city include a Quik-e-mart ?
It's only a matter of time :)
Let's get drunk and delete production data!
A flood of the kind described by the bible is simply not possible. There is simply no way that enough water to cover all of the mountains of the earth could be present in the atmosphere (not without the Earth having oppressive surface pressure and a temperature of thousands of degrees.) Now of course, the religious can just say "well, God magicked the water in and then he magicked it away." That's fine, if it floats your boat (pun intended.) But normal folks demand a bit more reasonable answer. In this case, the reasonable answer is that there was one or more catastrophic regional floods that made their way into the cultures that they affected. No need to make things ridiculous or difficult
...is a nutter. Pure and simple. He's right there in the nutter squad with such people as David Icke and Whitley Streiber.
Just because they may have found some ruins in the sea doesn't mean these ancient myths are true.
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score one for the sand people!!
What I find most interesting is that Indian mythology also has a story very similar to Noah's ark.
To me, this points to one of two things:
1. A great flood (of some magnitude) or
2. A common cultural origin (more likely)
Mmmm.. Donuts
Rome was a republic, and bore little resemblance to what we might consider a democracy.
The city magistrates were elected (until Imperial times), but by (what would seem to us) a really screwy procedure. The popular assemblies, which qualify as direct democracy, only really became powerful at the time of the Gracchi, in the 2nd century BC. The Senate was a plutocracy (given that the primary qualification was a specific level of personal wealth).
Why however is Rome the canonical "really ancient civilization", and not, say, Sumeria? 753 BC, nothing.
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At least I'm convinced, after an excelent special on the Discovery Channel (or one of those type of channels). A link to the same guy is http://www.geocities.com/webatlantis/ if you want to check out some of the evidence.
This discovery just shows that we have a lot more to discover about our own planet before even bothering about alien civilizations. Who knows, maybe alien contact was already made in the past and maybe we will come to know about it when we run into some ancient discoveries like this.
I just get the feeling that we should be focussing our energies inwardly first before any outer exploration.
I just read thearticle, but could this be a little late come April fool's joke?
Also, note the name Graham Hancock. Isn't this the Fingerprint of the Gods guy?
I am rather skeptical of the discovery. I, for one, had never heard of the seven pagodas of Mahapariburam. South Asians don't use the word pagoda, in the first place, I think. Pagoda is a word used in Southasian Buddhist architecture context.
doens't that put them a few thousand years too late to be Noah's ark? i'm of course assuming the Old testament was written before 500 AD.
-c
I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too small to contain.
The problem with the ever present "ancient civilizations" theorey is the course of our own civilization.
Working of metals from early bronze days to the industrial revolution was really only possible because the raw ores themselves were either found on the surface or very near it. Even with a glacial age it would not explain the preponderance of such ores in many areas (some of which would not have been affected by glacial ice)
Let alone the fact that some of the advanced metals (or not so advanced - your choice) that we have today will easily survive glacial ice or be found in such quantity to reveal that "something" did exist.
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the grammatically correct version would be found off india
Try to search for the books that these guys write. You will mostly find reviews of there books explaining why there logic is critically flawed. I read a Josh McDowell book. His assertions are leaps of faith off a cliff. -Israel
a beowulf cluster of sunken cities!!
The outer parts of older Alexandria are underwater too. Perhaps there is faster subsidence in some seashores.
The Feb 11, 2002 issue of India Today had the story of the discovery of Cambay off the coast of Gujarat in January of this year. The India Today website is subscriber only, but here is the teaser.
The article is somewhat sensationalist, but here are the highlights: Wood from the site has been dated between 5500BC and 7500BC. Structures found include stone roads, a bath complex, and acropolis-style raised platforms. Among the artifacts were large numbers of semiprecious stones and beads.
hmmm...this ought bring forth a whole new set of interpretations of the "fall of ghanga" sculptures at mahabalipuram...some will now see the flood story quite directly depicted in those carvings...
Genesis was based on the older Sumerian tale, you know. "Forest Gump" can been verified to be true also. Think about it.
perhaps the ancient civilizations that existed were moe like the aztecs who did not use any metals in construction and only presious metals in ornamentation. that way, he presious metals would ahve not been disernable from a huck of naturaly found stuff and the clay bricks and wooden swords would have been neatly returned to the eco system.
advanced civilization is possable with out using the resources that we use.
no need for what we have to be consdered advanced, just need a large population, a mature governmental system, and law enforcement. that is all.
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There was a set of links that showed up with this post including one regarding a French study. The author concluded that there actuall are several drowned islands, just west of Gibraltar, that were submerged about 11,000 years ago. Sea level at the height of the Pleistocene was about 400 feet (120 meters) below its present level. So, in fact there is a substantial piece of real estate now underwater that once was dry land when you consider the planet as a whole. The French author plans to dive on these "islands" this summer. It is worth noting - to us archaeologists any way - that this is the second drowned city found off India. Another was found last year in 120 feet of water off southwest India - the other side of the subcontinent from the latest find. My colleagues are unconfortable with the radiocarbon dates from this site, which reportedly run about 9,000 years old. This would tack a good 5,000 years onto the archaeology of civilizations, as opposed to less complexly organized societies.
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Expedition leader Monty Halls said: "Our divers were presented with a series of structures that clearly showed man-made attributes. The scale of the site appears to be extremely extensive, with 50 dives conducted over a three-day period covering only a small area of the overall ruin field."
Right, and now they're going to find tons of overly powerful items and monsters which are not dangerous considering the characters.
Sorry, your date is wrong. The earth is 6000-7000 years old, so the earliest country has to be less than 4000BC.
"And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the World"
1 John 4:14
A lot of people have big issues with this guy.
The implications of many of his writings are that the people we *think* built great civilizations aren't capable of being that smart. For example, say the aboriginal Maya peoples of Central America couldn't have build all those great cities and pyramids, let alone figured out all that astronomy, etc.
Instead some other "greater" previous civilization is responsible. Whatever.
I have to agree. Metallurgy was one of several technologies that primarily developed for the purposes of war. (Secondary uses in agriculture and what not were happy accidents) If there was only one significant civilization (or a small number spread out geographically) there would be little incentive to worry about metals.
here is a translation of the story into heroic verse.
Lost city found off Indian coast
by Anonymous J. Coward
An ancient underwater city has been found
Off the coast of south-east India; a profound
Discovery, to be sure, for now
The legend that the fishermen avow
(Of "Seven Pagodas", an old Indian story)
Has come to be confirmed in all its glory.
From England and from India divers came
To find among the depths a fleeting fame:
They postulated, plumbed, and proved a theorem
Off the coast of Mahabalipuram.
Many a square mile's ruin there would seem,
Well to have proven the theories of the team:
An ancient major city there had stood,
Before the Gods submerged the neighborhood.
A further expedition to the site
Should take place early next year, all goes right.
"International significance"
The discovery was made on April first
(Really, as far as timing, quite the worst [-AC])
By the Indian National Institute of Oceanography
and Dorset's Scientific Exploration Society.
Expedition leader Monty Halls
Said: "Our divers saw these crumbling walls
Which had what clearly looked like man-made features
[Though now they're home to more aquatic creatures -AC]"
The team, as stated, will return next year.
[After fund-raising from Albania to Zaire.
Halls elaborates: "The site's extensive!
Therefore, searching it will be expen$ive."]
(So far, the team has made but fifty dives,
Which took three days from out their busy lives.
"There's lots to do, and we've done one small part,"
Halls says, "but even that's a start."
"This site should be of international investigation;
It clearly warrants further exploration."
That's cuz' (like we said) they found some stuff,
That seems man-made; as if that weren't enough
The design of one such "building" would suggest
A place of worship, prayer, and all the rest.
"Think of a crumbling church, but don't forget
That underwater things are much more wet."
This one building, Halls goes on to say
Suggests a major city in decay.
"Jealous Gods"
The myths of Mahabalipuram
Were first set down by the British J. Goldingham
Who visited the South Indian coastal town
In 1798, at which time the place was known
To sailors as the Seven Pagodas,
[With something here, for rhyme, about cream sodas. -AC]
The myth says six of seven were submerged
When (as we shall see) the flood-tide surged.
For by that myth a city once had stood
There, too beautiful for its own good:
The gods went envying it and so
(And this is the only reason, as all men know)
They sent a flood to swallow up the place,
Which in one day submerged it without a trace.
Graham Hancock, one of the expedition team,
Said, "I long have argued that the motif'ed theme
Of flood-myths among cultures should be taken seriously.
But Western academics regard me mysteriously,
It's not mysticism, damnit! Listen to me,
I say, but they don't they just won't see."
But now, Graham Hancock, you've been proven right,
And the Academics, wrong, for all their might.
Anyway,
Scientists are beginning to explore
The possiblity that the city was submerged before
Or after, or during the last Ice Age
(5000 years ago), which would give it quite a nice age.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,682 031,00.html
Curiously, the expedition does not seem to include any professional archaeologists:
http://www.india-atlantis.org/
Graham Hancock, the most prominent member of the expedition, is well known for what might kindly be described as 'fringe' theories of ancient civilizations, Faces on Mars, etc:
http://www.grahamhancock.com/
For a critical view, see:
http://www.ramtops.demon.co.uk/
Sounds a lot like the story of the Minoan Crete island, Thera/Santorini - the gods also became jealous, and the nation was sunk in a single day. For those not familiar, this is probably the city/nation referenced to by Plato (or is it Socrates? I get their works confused sometimes) in his account of Atlantis, which subsuquently is a story he got from a man in Egypt, who got it from his father, who was a supposed escapee from the 'sinking Atlantis'. It's quite a fascinating story, but kind of sad that things like Atlantis are debunked instead of being found in their whole glory. However, the Minoan society -was- quite advanced - their houses had cold -and- warm running water fixtures that came from pipes! Their society was destroyed by a large volcanic explosion that errupted from teh center of their island. No remains have been found of humans, so it's suspected there were earthquakes that warned them to leave. This Theran volcano is probably what destroyed the Crete civilization.
It's kind of interesting how there are multiple accounts of 'great cities/nations that sink into the sea, never to be seen again' throughout various cultures. I suspect we'll have such Atlantean rumours in the future as well - New York after the polar ice caps melt, anybody? "A city that never slept, with pillars that reached to the sky, holding the world together" - I can see it now. Very, very interesting indeed.
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Modern science says there was a global flood.
Whaaaat?
Please, *please* do not let the creationists get away with this.
Modern science most definitely does NOT say that there was a "global flood."
A global flood that would have covered all of the continents is impossible. It is a physical impossibility. Where did all of the water for this supposed flood come from? Where did it go? Read this, particularly "the flood itself."
And can we pick the city?
:-)
I vote for Redmond.
"Just because you're a genius doesn't make you a smart guy!" -- Narrator, Powerpuff Girls
You are right to be open minded about such things.
... without significant evidence they are just that ... claims. I think it is quite possible ancient civilizations have risen and fallen, and had their every trace eradicated by glaciers, erosion, and who knows what else. However, without physical evidence one should view these things as hypothetical possibilities, not probabilities. As for the alien slant I agree with you entirely ... show me the alien, or stop wasting my time with nonsense. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
... when some natural catastrophe (possibly a yellowstone-like so-called super-volcano, possibly disease or climatic change) nearly wiped the species out.
However, others are right to be skeptical of many of the claims
Other interesting things are that geneticists have worked out that ALL current human beings are descended from around 2,000 humans at a point around 80,000 years ago.
Clarification. IIRC all humans are descended from a few thousand humans 80,000
However, everyone outside of Africa is believed to be descended from about 500 people who emigrated more recently. That's right, something like 90-95% of human genetic diversity is in Africa. The rest of us, be we European, Native American, Asian, or whatever, are all much more similar, having only 5-10% of the genetic diversity. I'll leave it as an excercize to the reader as to which group some future humans, having survived some arbitrary change in survival requirements and conditions, is most likely to come from (hint, the math can be done by any 10th grade algebra student).
That is why humanity is not like other animals like dogs for which there are a myriad of different shapes and forms.
First, dogs are not naturally occuring creatures. They were bred for specific characteristics and traits, indeed inbred extensively, which is why there are so many varieties of dogs, some taking very odd form. A better example would have been different wolves, or bears, whose differences exist because of natural selection and not human intervention.
Second, that bottleneck is one possible contributing factor to humankinds homogeneous nature. Other factors which may have been more important were the destruction of the Neanderthal and perhaps other intelligent primates we don't know about (i.e. the ethnic cleansing of a differing kind of primates, leaving homo sap alone to dominate the world), our ability to modify our environment (easing some evolutionary pressures that wolves and bears must endure), and probably numerous other things as well.
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so many sunken cities are known to people in India whats the big deal? ice ages arent the only reason for rise and fall of local sea level. tectonic events commonly cause changes in elevation of large area. If theyre near the sea, well..
all along the seacoast of india there are sunken "cities". archeology is expensive, especially marine underwater archeology. usually new findings are secondary to strategic ocean floor mapping for submarines or mineral-oil prospecting or plain snooping. Expect many more sunken cities to be "found".
As long as we are on this subject, there is a hugh ruin(?) discovered off the coast of Japan.
http://www.morien-institute.org/yonaguni.html
I said '?' is because nothing distinctly man-made (e.g. writings etc.) has been found, but a large number of structures that are too rare to happen just by erosion. Stuff like a perfect cube "stages" and lots of right-angled platforms just boggles the mind.
Discovery channel had an interesting show a while back that suggested "Atlantis" could be a city discovered in a mountain platau in South America. The
same show/series seem to follow the idea that a group of advanced people traveled the globe way back and interacted with Egypt, mesoamerican, polynisian and asian cultures thus the ideas of pyramids and the variations of winged serpents all over the anciant world... They also claimed the advanced seafarers were why anciant egyptions were drugging out on south american coacoa(sp) leaves...
Anyways, the South American platau seemed to match Plato's descriptions of the geography and layout of "Atlantis".
Another rumor point.
Not to mention Michael J. Fox finding Atlantis last year.
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Although.. he seems to been have encrusted with lots of mollusks
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"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
You're right, there was a flood. It was a permanent flood, and for good reason.
Until a few thousand years ago, the Black Sea area was a small lake at the bottom of a very large depression (anyone looked for asteroid dust around there?). Then the Mediterranean broke through and flooded it. It is indeed a big flood when an ocean is pouring in. You'll note there is an earthquake fault right along the connecting line, so the water had help getting through.
Of course, the same thing had happened to the Mediterranean much earlier, when the Atlantic breached through the Gibraltar area. Now THAT's a FLOOD!
Hey... if all that water used to be in the other oceans...what was the old waterline? And what did the extra water across the near-Arctic shoreline do to the polar ocean currents?
Underwater archeology is all fun and games until you have to empty the water out of a grid square so you can reach the good stuff at the bottom with your camel's hair brush.
Some of the people that make the claims are at least trying to find proof, although it would be helpful if they didn't claim that every submerged city was 8000 years old or so before any dating had been done!
That Yellowstone super-volcano is scheduled to erupt within the next few hundred years isn't it?
Say 10,000 years ago a group of 40 people left africa and went to india. Assume that there are two surviving offspring per person, and that a generation is 25 years. 40 people are not going to build a city, but 25 years later there are 120 people + children, 25 years after that 240 people + children, then ~500, then ~1000 and so on. A couple of hundred years and you have a need for several joined communities (10-20,000 people). Someone else can do the maths assuming a lifespan of around 40-50 years and more accurate survival rates for offspring, and maybe the generation gap was as low as every 15 years... add a few droughts and other population killers into the mix, and sell the result to Maxis.
The story was called "By the waters of Babylon"
Here's the full text of the story and some commentary. It's cleary about nuclear war, but what I found interesting is that the author, Stephen Vincent Benet, died in 1943.
Two years before the US dropped the first nukes on Japan. I'm not sure how much before his death the story was written.
Interesting, and only a few pages.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_as
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Cambay+und
It's beginning to seem plausible that much of what we know about prehistory is clearly wrong..
Excavations at Santorini (the Aegean Sea) have found four and five story buildings with indoor plumbing and heating systems.. dating back to before 1800 BC.. They are buried under as much as 200 meters of ash from the huge volcanic eruptions there..
:)
This is not conjecture.. it's scientific fact...
"Ancient ruins of sunken dot coms dating back to 2000 AD discovered!"
Coincidence? Probably.
Mapping Gravity
Posted by michael on Thursday November 22, @01:22AM
from the slim-fast dept.
overThruster writes: "No, you don't need to drink the water... Gravity is less strong in India--enough so that you weigh almost 1% less there. See BBC story about NASA's gravity map." Here's another story about the mission, and the GRACE home page (or NASA's less-informative page).
But this did make me wonder if there is any connection to what I posted back then:
Back in 1978, Arthur C. Clarke ended his book The View from Serendip by writing about a gravitational anomaly which was found off the coast of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) -- the small island near India where he lives.
I am able to visit my favorite spot (Chapter 13) for only a few days a year. But now, quite unexpectedly -- and literally since I wrote the preceding paragraph! -- Serendipity has struck again. While researching a totally different subject, I've discovered a good reason for spending more time on the south coast.
It concerns the greak Sanskrit epic, the Ramayana. In this 2,200-year-old poem, the demon-king Ravanna kidnaps Sita, wife of Rama, and takes her to his island stronghold of Ceylon. Needless to say, she is ultimately released, after aerial battles involving what look suspiciously like atomic weapons and laser beams.
To heal the wounded, the heroic monkey-general Hanuman is later sent back to India to fetch a medicinal herb found only in the Himalayas. Unfortunately, when he gets to the right mountain he is unable to identify the herb. No problem; he brings the whole mountain back! However, one piece drops off, on the southern tip of Ceylon. The locals believe this fragment is in fact my favourite bay, for its name in Sinhalese means "there it fell down" (onna watuna).
There it fell down. Place names usually have a meaning, though it is often lost in the mists of time. Did something really fall down, centuries or millennia ago, at Unawatuna Bay? A meteorite would be the obvious explanation; it must have been a big one for the legend to have lasted down the ages.
And here's another weird coincidence. Little Unawatuna, believe it or not, is the closest point on dry land to the world's greatest gravitational anomaly, a few hundred kilometres out in the Indian Ocean. On the Goddard Space Flight Center's 3-D map of the Earth's Gravimetric Geoid, that strange phenomenon looks liek a deep pit [1] into which the whole island of Sri Lanka is about to slide.
Let's put two and two together. A few thousand years ago, a huge object of peculiar density plunged into the Indian Ocean, creating a tradition that is remembered to this day. And it's still there, distorting the earth's gravitational field -- Terran Gravitational Anomaly I.
That might make an opening for a pretty good science-fiction movie . . . and an even better ending for this book.
Ayu Bowan.
1. One hundred and ten metres below zero reference on the Goddard model (March & Vincent, 1974).
Of course, the Ramayana is "only" 2,200 years old, compared to an estimated age of 5,000 years for this discover. Since I don't have a map of the locations of either TGA-1, or the sunken city, I don't know how close they are.
Couldn't the underwater structures, especially those in the Japanese ruins, be something like these maturally formed polygon structures/ physical / 2GIAN.html
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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/02/science
(* Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. *)
It is not quite that Boolean. Evidence can be broken into at least these 5 categories:
1. I am certain beyond a reasonable doubt that X is true
2. X is probably true
3. I hesitate a conclusion, but the mystery deserves more study
4. Interesting mystery, but not worth investigating
5. Mystery is probably nonsense and a complete waste of time
What chaps me is those who suggest that if it is not 1 or 2, then it must be 5. UFO's fall into #3 IMO. The eyewitness evidence that something odd goes on is enough to convict a million OJ's. Yet, some skeptics try to lump everybody into the nut-case category, even suggesting that TV and media makes them actually *hallucinate* things that aren't there. How can pilots, cops, etc. do there jobs if they were so prone to TV-show-based hallucinations?
Table-ized A.I.
Read what I said, jackass. I didn't support creationism or the claim that the discovery proves it. I wanted an explaination of how one could arrive at the logical conclusion that this discovery proves creationism.
~ now you know
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Then W00t! for Global Warming! We sure are giving that Ice Age what-for! Greenhouse gases? Hell, we are doing the Earth a favor by driving our big SUVs and using chloroflurocarbons!
***Set sarcasm mode OFF***
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
Im not doubting you, really. ;) I'm interested in paleloclimatolgy and found a bunch of links about that and recently lost them, and was hoping to not have to dig for them all over the internet again.
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you had me laughing my ass off. Hail Eris. Have you eaten your hotdog today?
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Hey! None of the comments after yours were funny because you forgot to close your tag. Thanks a lot.
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To quote:
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"The discovery was made on 1 April by a joint team of divers from the Indian National Institute of Oceanography and the Scientific Exploration Society based in Dorset."
Clue number one.
"Expedition leader Monty Halls said: "Our divers were presented with a series of structures that clearly showed man-made attributes.""
Clue number two.
Let me guess, they found an extensive warren of underground treasure troves, right?
Sigh. Second oldest trick in the book, after having a halfling vampire "trapped" in a coffin banging on the lid, trying to get out.
Gets them every time
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I've tried looking for this piece of news in the Indian Press (Try http://www.samachar.com for a list of and links to various Indian newspapers and magazines) but have failed. I can't help but wonder about the credibility of this news report -- I'm not disputing that something may have been located beneath the waves at Mahabalipuram but am sceptical as to whether the find is really as significant as claimed.
It's an interesting read (that site); but down at the bottom of the page, it notes an April 1st `discovery' date. Perhaps, coincidence. Perhaps, merely the ultimate proof the Conspiracy Theorists have been looking for!!! Or I'm just bored on a Friday morning...
proven theories are facts
Why are the most arrogant asses like skeptical inquirer usually the scrub scientists, who never really discover anything new and/or significant.
why dont you take a dive for yourself? if not, than
who would you BELIEVE?
Funny how nothing is ever "found" until the British get there...Were still waiting on em to "find" salvation.
And the soma ritual may also go back to Indus times. The matter is far from closed, but the best evidence comes from the language: people have mapped Indus valley script onto something like Dravidian quite convincingly. Attempts to map it onto a Sanscrit like language are much less convincing.
My bet would be that modern Hindu culture includes aspects of the ancient Indus culture, and aspects of the Aryan invader's culture.
The discovery was made on 1 April by a joint team of divers from the Indian National Institute of Oceanography and the Scientific Exploration Society based in Dorset.
Why is this all significant? Well, major portions of the world have religious sentiments that date after these cities existed. Islam tends to discourage too much emphasis on history before Islam arose. Similarly, the mindset of Christianity has largely been that nothing important happened until about 6000 years ago.
These findings are very graphic evidence that humanity has a history much older than either Islam or Christianity. Even the academic orthodoxy today tends to be that everything of value came of of the middle east-this now appears to be that everything important came out of the middle east. This appears to be far from true.
Randall Burns
I heard about this underwater city being discovered at least three months ago. The question in my mind is why the official news about it is moving so slowly as is (apparently) the archaeology community. Perhaps it could have something to do with the early estimates I saw that this city is over 9.000 years old. If so then a lot of theories about the history of early civilization come into question. Stay tuned.
Could you post a URL or URLs that supports the hypothesis that all homo sapiens come from such a small group? This is a very interesting idea and i'd like to learn more about it.
I mean, here we are finding sunken cities and all, where people though they didn't exist and people who said they existed were considered crazy. I mean come on, use common sense people. The earth *has* gone though catistropic geologic changes before.
I'm actually surpised that the main stream media is just catching on, this has been in the lesser publications for atleast a year or more. Hell it was even on art bell awhile back.
Just remeber that what you think you know, it's always what you know for sure.
Om, nomnomnom...
It's not just the date that's off by a power of 10 in Platos story, but also the dimensions. This consistency makes it seem very likely that it's simply a result of a greek mistake while interpreting egyptian numbers.
The island is also called Santorini, btw, and it was not the capital of the Minoans, at least during the times we know of, and neither was Minoa... the capital was Knossos on Crete, Minoa is closer to Thera. However, hopefully someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't remember any reason to rule out the hypothesis that Thera was the site of the Minoan capital in prehistoric times, before the explosion?
Anyway, it's a far better fit than any other site I've seen for the Atlantis story, the details all seem to fit, as long as we change the actual numbers consistently by factors of 10.
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The crew find stone ruins: CITY OF ATL[rest is obscured by seaweed].
Professor: Could it possibly be? Are the old legends true?
[Leela clears the seaweed, revealing the rest of the city's name]
All: Oooh.
Professor: It is! It's the fabled lost city...of Atlanta!
Apparently no one noticed this bit:
The discovery was made on 1 April by a joint team of divers...
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Quickly, I don't understand why the "radiation symbol" should not be used. So future peoples may see the symbol, do a background ratiation check, and ignore the rest of the message. We want to convey the dangers of the radioactive material - if they already understand radioactivity, then why is the rest of our message so important? This seems to be overstating our importance, and the importance of our message, rather than allowing for the competence of later peoples. What if our hazardous waste becomes a valuable resource for their more advanced energy harnessing needs?
Not that I think the current approach is really wrong, but lets pretend for a minute that I do.
Instead of "We are a great culture, this is important to us" there should be more emphasis on penance and shame in relation to visitors There should be an emphasis on "you" the visitor, and our guilt on what we perpetrated against you. Why should a great civilization care about this place so much to invest so greatly in it? "This is our shame. We were wrong to make this. This is a plague. We cannot save you. You should avoid this mistake. We are guilty of leaving this burden here for you."
Now I really think that this style, emphasizing the visitor's importance should be incorporated into the linguistics of the message. The tone near the end of the report should maybe be given more attention. The entire report emphasized messages of great importance and greatness. Maybe there should be more of a sense of penance and regret, or even a sense of understatement out of shame.
Is the right approach really to embark on our civilazation's greatest and most ambitious work to date? How does this compare to, e.g. the Great Wall of China, which can be seen from outer space with the naked eye?
How do "cultures", as in "ways of life" end? What happened to the Egyptians, for example? The Greeks were assimilated into the Romans, so that important knowlegde was carried over into the next culture. The Romans "fell to barbarians", or collapsed under their own weight, how ever you want to look at it. In the following "Dark Ages" some knowlege of the Romans was preserved, but was lost to the general populace. The elite few religous scholars had most of the transmitted knowlege, but even if they subjugated the masses via religous ritual, it seems unlikely that the medieval scholars would have let humanity be irradiated by an ancient Greek WIPP.
More significant breaks in cultural meme transmission are widespread cataclysmic events, like a pandemic plague, globally significant meteor impact, or many imaginitive events. At this point, who cares? Where do we draw the line of responsibility? Some "native American" tribes have a law that they are responsible for seven generations of successors. Will a post apocalypic people care about any warnings we can give, or will they just be intrigued by any proof of prior civilization? Are we responsible to protect the hostile succesoors to the human race? What about just leaving the site nondescript and undifferentiated so that it can be forgotten for 10K years? Will any disconnected culture (assumed less technologically capable) be able to dig down 4 miles? Perhaps the post-apocalyptic culture will be a burrowing underground civilization, how will we protect/warn them with our surface markers?
Of course while it may be presumptuous of us to think we are keener than 10000 years of post humanity, I fully support this kind of cross disciplinary research, and value the fruits of foresight. Alternative perspectves are good, especially if they may slow down certain aspects of our current "civilization", and allow a more organic, sustainable culture of meditation and self reflection. I like the sentiment of holding responsibility to our next seven generations as being a limiting factor to some of our folly. While I am encouraged by the creativity that can occaisionally be expressed my out industry, I can't help but feel that this isn't enough. This report almost has a sense of not having been put under much public review - there are even a few minor typographical errors. At least a sentence is spared to reflect on the possiblity that this report itself is an indication of our current error.
-castlan
Mahabalipuram (or Mamallapuram) is now a moderately large town and a pretty nice resort. I grew up not far from there (in Vellore, Tamil Nadu). I've seen the seventh temple - there are lots of very nice temples and rock-carvings by the seaside. Anyway, the existence of six submerged temples has always been taught as fact, at least when I was in school, and I think that preliminary diving expeditions had already found evidence of a submerged city there. The new discovery doesn't really surprise me.
India has another submerged city : Dwaraka, the legendary abode of Krishna, located (probably) off the west coast a little north of Mumbai (formerly Bombay). I'm pretty sure archaeologists have found some submerged ruins in that area as well, but nothing specific.
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I'm pretty sure gold, which does not oxidize, would still be around, and any worked or fashioned gold jewelry would be a dead givaway. I don't believe that there are any examples of that in existance which are known to be "inexplicably old".
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A Portuguese academic has some rather interesting (and exhaustively researched) ideas on Atlantis, stating basically that the legends of Atlantis actually refer to the large area south of China, west of India, and near Indonisia which would have been an above-water continent during the last Ice Age. (There's a nice map available here. I wonder how close this is to the recent discovery?
The site overall is worth a look at http://www.atlan.org/
It's nice to see some of this guy's theories get validated! =)
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hmmm gold jewelry buried in the ground for 6 or 7 thousand years.....it would seem to me that most of it would have been ground into hunks of shapeless crap by glaciers and siesmic activity.
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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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How can pilots, cops, etc. do there jobs if they were so prone to TV-show-based hallucinations?
Because people are not very reliable witnesses, especially in unfamiliar situations.
Personal case: while not a trained observer I have done a bit of star-gazing. One time I was looking out in the evening sky when I caught out of the corner of my eye a bright light seeming to jerk back and forth in a small area of the sky (about 5 times the width of a full moon). It took me over 30 seconds to figure out that the light was Jupiter and somehow by looking at it through the top of a set of trees partly lit by the street lights Jupiter seemed to dance back-n-forth as I moved my head from side to side. it was an optical illusion which I could repeat and knowing that the light was Jupiter did NOTHING to stop me from thinking that it was moving.
Just imagine how a non-star-gazer might react.
When I was in Japan a few years ago, several large temples were discovered off of the Ryukyu islands. That's supposed to be the lost city of Mu. That myth includes a reference to seven temples in the west. This is enlightening indeed.
As someone who has been quite interested in archaeology at one time, I know how it works. You'd think that archaeologists would be people who are dedicated to objectively uncovering the truth, and there are some like that, but the overwhelming majority are definately not. Their interest in archaeology is fueled by egotism and brownie points... they fanatically attack any new ideas or theories because it would threaten what is 'proper' to think in arachological circles (think: a Victorian level of fanatical properness). Anything which doesn't fit in with the *correct* theorium is either systematically ignored or attacked. I've seen arachaeologists come up with the most fatastically crazy explanations to try and defend the 'proper' worldview when something contradicts it. Not that I am saying these 'alternative' archaeologists are any better though.
(* It took me over 30 seconds to figure out that the light was Jupiter and somehow by looking at it through the top of a set of trees partly lit by the street lights Jupiter seemed to dance back-n-forth as I moved my head from side to side. it was an optical illusion which I could repeat and knowing that the light was Jupiter did NOTHING to stop me from thinking that it was moving. *)
Flashing, jumping lights close to the horizon are generally discarded anyhow by serious investigators, since there are too many causes. Besides, a regular inspection of the area and sky charts would likely reveil Jupiter, the trees, and the street lamps.
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First, giant squids that look like squids but aren't quite squids or in fact anything zoologists can put a finger on... and now another set of submerged cities.
That's a little too much Lovecraft for my taste.
Historians should be replaced or work with paleontologists, and especially geologists. Myths from various places speak of Atlantis, we know or heed only the Europeans and Egyptians.
I think this site actually explains it here. If any person has a National geographic dec 1981 undersea map of the undersea world (or some other with similar detail), It is apparent that the 'horse shaped, volcanic land, which sunk leaving the chain of isles called Eldorado or Suvarna-dvipa (the latter is the sanskrit name for Indonesia, the source of the word serendip, both mean isles or cities of Gold), after 40 or so days of continous ash rich downpour and a Flood following the rise of sea-level by about 500 mts by melting ice at the pleistocene extinction, following a huge volcanic eruption, much larger than the one in Krakatoa in the last century (which was similarly devastating)' is indeed Indonesia. It is apparent that Nahu (or Manu or Noah or whatever) tried to escape this land in his boat, with all his lifestock in posession, and sailed, following the monsoon winds of India.
The antiquity and importance of Indian culture cannot be underestimated. Soon it will be proved that the so called Aryans (spiritual people in Sanskrit, not the totally distorted meaning taken by Nazism), actually came from the sunken parts of Indonesia. That the four river paradise of Danu (or Daneus or Adam) lies beneath the south China sea (four rivers are visible in undersea maps), that what is stated in the Puranas and Vedas (which always compare the land of Varuna as the Horse) of India are at least partly true both scientifically (geographically ) and historically and other sources like the Genesis are summaries of these. That the Greeks and other Indo-European races migrated from India and settled elsewhere. That the Egyptians actually migrated from East India (from references in Indian texts of Embalming of bodies after death by groups in East India. These groups were out of favour in the region and driven away. Also Egyptians and some East Indian villagers worship(ped) a cat headed Goddess of theologically the same type, called Pasht or Sashti).
This city also has significance. It certianly isn't the only one out there, there are others which are older than the oldest cities in the world (the oldest is dated 7000BC, which is quite unbelievable!!). The people who lived here in the Rig Vedic period when the Vedas were written, were called as Panis in the Vedas (Pani meant traders in sanskrit, people of materalistic virtues). These Panis held large port cities like Dwarka, near the site of the sunken cities. These people traded with the middle east and colonized it (They could be ancestors of the middle-eastern people), using it as an intermediate point for trade between the Indies and the Mediterranian.
This area was at the mouth of a large seasonally flooding river, the revered Saraswati, which is extinct today but has left its traces. This river brought a large amount of silt and flooded very heavily (more than any river today - If the geological structure called the Indus and Ganges Fan, in the seas around India, visible in ocean floor maps, indicate enough). It must have been considered a pilgrimage for people to travel up this river to the spiritual land near its source. This along with earthquakes, caused the cities to sink. The most famous is described in the Mahabharata - the great Hindu Epic - the sinking of Dwarka (traditionally dated 3078BC ). This, along with the drying up of the Saraswati, forced them to search for another promised land. These same Panis were called the Poeni by Greeks and we know the better as Phoenicians. Those people who remained in India are still called Vanis (if they are traders).
Plato said that Atlantis sank 9000 years before him (600BC). The date then is 9600BC. The Matsya Purana which describes the story of Manu (apparently whose real name was Nahu, since his descendents are described as Nahusha in the Vedas) and the flood, dates the flood at 9600BC. The Great Pleistocene Extinction which wiped out most large plains animals in America (apparently by the striking of tidal waves), signalling the end of the Great Ice Age, melting ice leading to the rising of sea level, took place EXACTLY in 9600BC
Homer descibes the sinking of the 'Greatest Ciy of the Phoenicians' 3000 years before him. Apparently he refered to the sinking of Dwarka, and Bet Dwarka, whose pier is still the largest in the world.
Historians should remember that Earth is the second most geologically active body in the solar system, and get an idea of the earth at a particular time and place before tackling history of that place and period.
Think about it!! All this won't make full sense until you look at an oceanfloor map, visit www.atlan.org, have a basic idea of hindu myths(I got mine from comic books:) and read some of the Indocentric books on history. All these sources are independant and don't make full sense, but taken together, you will get a revolutionary idea of history that confirms with all your beliefs, whichever culture you belong to, geology and climate, and also many other answers that are considered 'mysteries' , like that of Easter Island.
>With the purported discovery of a city off of Cuba, as well as the the finding of Herakleion underwater archaeology is doing well.
Dont forget the underwater stuff near Japan as well.