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British divers discover ruins of settlement off the coast of India.

The ruins of an ancient city off the coast of India have been discovered by a team of British divers on a shoestring budget.

Experts claim it could have been submerged more than 5,000 years ago-2,000 years earlier than most scientist believe south Indian civilisation were established.
The discovery will lead to a major re-examination of Indian history. It will also fuel long-held theories-first sparkled by Plato's writing about the lost city of Atlantis-that countless other sunken cities are still to be found.
Underwater photos and flim footage unveiled in London yesterday show long-metre high walls and granite objects-one resembling a lion's head-which seem man-made.
The finding was announced by expedition leader Monty Halls and controversial author Graham Hancock, who joined the £35,000 project. Edinburgh-born Hancock,author of Fingerprint of the gods,is renowned for his theory that the world's first complex civilisations were established 10,000 years ago but were wiped out by a violent cataclysm.
He remains cautious about the implications of the latest finding, but said yesterday:"I've argued for many years teh world's flood myths deserved to be taken seriously-a view most western academics reject.But here we have proved the myths right and academics wrong."
According to Hancock,carbon-dating of organic samples trapped beneath the granite objects will establish the age of the ruins,a mile off coast of Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu,south India.
He stresses the structures,15 to 21 feet underwater,could have been pushed into the sea by subsidence or tectonic activity.The only other explanation would be the rising of teh sea level over thousands of years.
The expedition was organised by Dorset-based scientific Exploration Society,toghether with India's National Institute of Oceanography.
(source :- Daily Express)

Responses:

• From: naveena (@ inktomi4-ltn.server.ntl.com) on: Thu Apr 11 12:26:44
  
  This is a cool article that i came across and please . i am not an expert in Indian civilisation ..what could it possible be?????
  
  
• From: Shakthi (@ bangdp-33-17.mantraonline.com) on: Thu Apr 11 13:02:36
  
  Very Interesting!
  
  Hope some professionals in archeology and oceanography talk about it, and make this more interesting.
  
  
• From: pradheep (@ ns1.genetic-id.com) on: Thu Apr 11 14:19:38
  
  they have found a log dating 7000 BC, if that is confirmed this will be the oldest civilzation of the world. The city planning is so good and advanced that all the other civilizations were at that even nomads or just at the verge of settling.
  This will prove again that INDIA is the mother of all civilizations.
  
  
• From: Hi (@ 209.167.202.210) on: Thu Apr 11 14:32:59
  
  http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=180122002
  
  http://www.earthfiles.com/earth322.htm
  
  
• From: Venki (@ proxyle02.ext.ti.com) on: Thu Apr 11 19:15:10
  
  Same story from BBC.
  
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1923000/1923794.stm
  
  How they date it to 5000 years based on one dive is not quite clearly stated though.
  
  
• From: sk (@ 202.142.90.106) on: Fri Apr 12 02:19:39
  
  Thats Interesting,
  
  Thinking about the floods as the cause for the sunken Cities,
  many historical evidences and epics speak about the floods that destroyed many cities at different places of the world,
  What is the cause of these sudden floods?
  Warming of the earth as it came near the sun ?
  
  
  
  
• From: Shakthi (@ bangdp-40-207.mantraonline.com) on: Fri Apr 12 06:29:39
  
  Venki and Hi,
  Great links.
  
  I AM SPELL BOUND!
  That should make us very very proud!!
  
  
• From: minamjafi (@ 195.219.78.107) on: Sat May 11 15:06:54
  
  Hello,
  I understand that Indian epic books or History do not mention about the Sea warfare or
  I failed to come across such related topic.
  I am interested to know the epic references/views of Indian/Tamil Thinkers and Strategists about the Sea Wars.
  Can I get help in this behalf
  minamjafri@hotmail.com
  
  
• From: selvaraj (@ bbcache-245.singnet.com.sg) on: Sat May 18 02:14:04
  
  hi,
  In tamil books, there are references to the sunken cities. Every tamil knows there were 3 tamil sangams. The first 2 were destroyed by kadalkol. (kadalkol - Sea level rising and destroying the cities)So far there were been 7 such occasions happend.
  The first Madurai was some were south of present day srilanka. Mainly because of these we have lost few tamil litratures aswell.
  But so far no archelogical search was done on this.
  
  
• From: Mavalngkilli (@ wc05.ym.rnc.net.cable.rogers.com) on: Wed Jun 5 23:14:50
  
  First of all get the Indian Thing out!! Because it's from Tamil Nadu, Tamil. Not any Indian u get it son?! Mahabalipuram people believed that they had 8 cities and 7 sang into the Ocean and only one is remaining. As you know in 'Silap Pathikaram' Illango say,'Pakuli Aarum, kumarimalaikalum kadalil moolkina enna.' He says it's happened before 200 years ago. So it should be more years like that and then u know that Poom pukar sang into the Ocean. You should also know that Tamil Nadu and Eelam had a connection by Land and there was a river which was flowing and eventually became as a sea after this and lot of the land went into the Ocean which rised up the Mount Everest!! That's what Ecologist or some sort of these guys who study this believe. There's lot of cities in the Ocean very deeper than the one they found. You can't get near it to. I don't want to talk more got to go and sleep so i wake up early for the school and it's cold here in Canada:(
  
  Nantri and thank you for starting this forum and there is lot of things which prove Tamils are the Ancinent people of India and they were the one who lived and the Indian Government somehow try it to put it away and shut these missions. We can help to get these things back. We could research our own Land if we have a country:( When are we going to get it anyway?
  
  
• From: Venki (@ 153.dallas-26rh16rt-tx.dial-access.att.net) on: Wed Jun 5 23:53:36
  
  More links on the dive off Mahabalipuram. Perhaps NIO - National Institute of Oceanography will bring in reputed historians to work with them to further explore this marine archaeological site, collate those findings with local fisherman's myths and other evidence from literary works.
  
  
  "History has it that Mahabalipuram once had 7 temples and six of them
  got submerged due to flood(s). The only temple to survive is the one
  we see at the shore, "The Shore temple". In ancient times, this area
  was known as 'tiruk kadal mallai' as evidenced in Tirumangai azhwar's
  paasurams."
  
  http://www.siliconeer.com/may2002.html#Anchor-Main-34571
  
  
  http://www.india-atlantis.org
  
  
  
• From: davie (@ ecclap31) on: Sun Dec 19 15:02:14
  
  yea its true that before some 2000 years, the major part of the link between srilanka and india was submerged in the sea.
  
  Again a strong logic that rama and hanuman pelted stones between the previously existing land link
  
  
• From: get lost north indians!!! (@ cache234.156ce.maxonline.com.sg) on: Fri Dec 24 08:12:47 EST 2004
  
  EMERGENCY! Singapore is sliding back as a civilised country as more and more north (hindi) speaking indians are coming to live here offering cheap services for less talent. Please do not come i beg you. Our forefathers, the chines, malays and (tamil and sikh)indians did npt strive hard for chappati eating lazy bums like you to enjoy life here. For how backward these hindi speaking people are, just go to Mustafa Center and see how they behave and shout (shout = talking for them)
  
  

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