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India: 9,500 yr old city found underwater
9,500-Year-Old City Found
Underwater Off India
Discovery in Bay of Cambay Will Force
Western Archaeologists to Rewrite History
The civilization of Ancient Egypt occurred in a past so remote that today it seems mystical. The pyramids and other temples, with their hieroglyphics depicting a flourishing civilization, have a mysterious, almost magical appeal. It seems inconceivable that people of an advanced society could have walked those ancient streets.
Now, it was announced in January, a civilization has been uncovered that would have appeared just as ancient to the people who built the pyramids as the pyramids seem to us.
According to marine scientists in India, archaeological remains of this lost city have been discovered 36 metres (120 feet) underwater in the Gulf of Cambay off the western coast of India. And carbon dating says that they are 9,500 years old.
This news completely contradicts the position of most Western historians and archaeologists, who (because it did not fit their theories) have always rejected, ignored, or suppressed evidence of an older view of mankind's existence on planet Earth. Human civilization is now provably much more ancient than many have believed...(see link)
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The city is believed to predate the Harappan civilisation
By BBC News Online's Tom Housden
The remains of what has been 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 years 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 years.
The site was discovered by chance last year by oceanographers from India's National Institute of Ocean Technology conducting a survey of pollution.
Using sidescan sonar - which sends a beam of sound waves down to the bottom of the ocean they identified huge geometrical structures at a depth of 120ft.
Debris recovered from the site - including construction material, pottery, sections of walls, beads, sculpture and human bones and teeth has been carbon dated and found to be nearly 9,500 years old.
Lost civilisation
The city is believed to be even older than the ancient Harappan civilisation, which dates back around 4,000 years.
Marine archaeologists have used a technique known as sub-bottom profiling to show that the buildings remains stand on enormous foundations.
"The whole model of the origins of civilisation will have to be remade from scratch" -Graham Hancock
Author and film-maker Graham Hancock - who has written extensively on the uncovering of ancient civilisations - told BBC News Online that the evidence was compelling:
"The [oceanographers] found that they were dealing with two large blocks of apparently man made structures.
"Cities on this scale are not known in the archaeological record until roughly 4,500 years ago when the first big cities begin to appear 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.
Chronological problem
This, Mr Hancock told BBC News Online, could have massive repercussions for our view of the ancient world. Harappan remains have been found in India and Pakistan
"There's a huge chronological problem in this discovery. It means that the whole model of the origins of civilisation 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 categorically said to belong to a 9,000 year old civilisation.
"Culturally speaking, in that part of the world there were no civilisations prior to about 2,500 BC. What's happening before then mainly consisted of small, village settlements," he told BBC News Online.
Dr Morris added that artefacts from the site would need to be very carefully analysed, and pointed out that the C14 carbon dating process is not without its error margins.
It is believed that the area was submerged as ice caps melted at the end of the last ice age 9-10,000 years ago
Although the first signs of a significant find came eight months ago, exploring the area has been extremely difficult because the remains lie in highly treacherous waters, with strong currents and rip tides.
The Indian Minister for Human Resources and ocean development said a group had been formed to oversee further studies in the area.
"We have to find out what happened then ... where and how this civilisation vanished," he said.
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Oooohhh. Atlantis. Cool.
wow, thanks for the awesome article mushyflowa!
Just think of how many ancient cities have been lost to the movement of bodies of water, tectonic plates, and volcanic eruptions.
I think this type of discover will only lead to more and more scientists putting in effort to find lost cities.
Atlantis anybody?
Thats pretty cool.
Similar to this type of topic, they supposably found a pyramid somewhere in Europe (somewhere under the earth)... actually its in Bosnia
If you want to read about it: http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/...566051,0087.htm
Sorry, I hope this wont hijack your thread.
sweet
wow. exciting stuff. ive always had an interest in ancient history whether it be dinosaurs or egypt.
That's wikked!
from the article :" I think that would radically change the whole picture of Indian history which has basically been written by Western archaeologists"
I wonder if this will affect religious history in any way.
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| Originally posted by Cosmic Fur Oooohhh. Atlantis. Cool. |
This is indeed cool
We have one of them in Cuba too!!!!
'Lost city' found off Cuba
Hum, Wich one would be Atlantis them ????
cool, think i will stop by in bharat mahan soon
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| Originally posted by jesteraver Thats pretty cool. Similar to this type of topic, they supposably found a pyramid somewhere in Europe (somewhere under the earth)... actually its in Bosnia If you want to read about it: http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/...566051,0087.htm Sorry, I hope this wont hijack your thread. |
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| Originally posted by neuromancer We have one of them in Cuba too!!!! 'Lost city' found off Cuba Hum, Wich one would be Atlantis them ???? |
i just found a 2 week old frito in my pants....wanna read about it ma jolie pille??
I love learning about Ancient civilizations...and generally about human history. First thing I thought of was Atlantis...since some guess that the city/civilization vanished around 7,000 years ago.
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| Originally posted by Orko neither. Atlantis is a myth. I believe that Atlantis was just a metephore for any lost civ. |
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| Originally posted by Cosmic Fur No! It exists! Jesus told me so. Why would Jesus lie to me? |
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| Originally posted by niveole cause you do drugs! and drugs are bad! yeah, drugs are bad. Jesus told me that! |
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| Originally posted by Cosmic Fur He told you that cause you do drugs! and drugs are bad! yeah, drugs are bad. Jesus told me that! |
who the heck is this Jebus character? and where can i get some? 
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| Originally posted by Orko who the heck is this Jebus character? and where can i get some? |
sorry mushyflowa these clowns hijacked your thread 
incredible.. aliens never cease to amaze me !
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| Originally posted by dEsidEL incredible.. aliens never cease to amaze me ! |
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