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Shishya · Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 7:12 pm Post subject: Lost City Could Rewrite History

Lost City Could Rewrite History
by
Tom Housden
BBC News Online

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.

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.

"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.

(Source)

Shyena · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 2:11 pm Post subject:

Nother article on it:
http://www.archaeologyonline.net/artifacts/gulf-of-cambay.html

Prabhat · Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:49 pm Post subject:

they found Atlantisch Wink

just jokking, but who knows, huh.
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Shishya · Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 11:57 pm Post subject:

Namaste Prabhat,

Actually, there could be a bit of truth behind that. I have read quite a few things suggesting that the Golden Age referred to in the mythological literature of many cultures is actually a reference to the Vedic Age. Wink

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Prabhat · Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 4:27 pm Post subject:

Namaste Shis,

hahaha who knows. the religion of greek people and hindoes are almost the same. and i mean about the gods and al that, even the greeks had many gods.

so why could it not be.

i saw a documentarie about the story of Noah in NGC. and even there was a story that people lived in the black see, before it got flooded. so maby thats Atlantisch.

what dos the Vedas say about lost'country's and people.
thinking about, atlantisch, black see, harrapan people, etc, etc
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Shyena · Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:08 pm Post subject:

Noah ---> Nuh ---> Manu

According to islamic and baha'i scriptures, nuh revealed a religious book as well. It is harmonious with the fact that manu revealed us manusmrti...

All i know is, either of the two cities on western coast of india are dwaraka

Prabhat · Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:46 pm Post subject:

Namaste PD,

i just was letting my imagine go. i like to have my own view on some thing Wink

i just dont like to take every thing people say, thats why i ask so much.
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Deepan Abisuriya · Junior Member Joined: 13 Sep 2006 Posts: 66

Namaste,

If the discovery proves that the city was older than the ancient Harappan civilisation, which dates back around 4,000 years, then it also adds to the historical fact taht vedic dharma is older than it is thought to be.

This will be an addition to the facts to prove that the pure vedic dharma is as old as the history and earth itself.

Deepan

Prabhat · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:53 pm Post subject:

Shishya · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:34 pm Post subject:

Namaste Prabhat,

I think Deepan is simply referring to the article in the first post above. The city that is mentioned there is estimated to be more than 9000 years old. That's ca. 5000 years older than the cities of Harappan and Mohenjo Daro - long claimed to be the oldest cities in India. This would show that highly developed civilization has existed in India for much, much longer than commonly believed, and also goes to support the Vedic Pre-History of the world.
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ॐ सह नावतु । सह तौ भुनक्तु । सह वीर्यं करवावहै । तेजस्वि नावधीतमस्तु मा विद्विषावहै ॥
"Together may we be protected. Together may we be profited. Together may we do a hero's work. May we learn intelligently. May we never hate one another."
-Brihadaranyaka & Taittiriya Upanishads

Prabhat · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:51 pm Post subject:

Deepan Abisuriya · Junior Member Joined: 13 Sep 2006 Posts: 66

Namaste,

Yes, what I meant is explained by Shishya.

Thank you Shishya.

Deepan

Prabhat · Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 8:45 pm Post subject:

i wil lbe waiting for fresh news.
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