Tuesday, February 1, 2011

9,500-Year-Old City Found Underwater Off India


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.


According to the BBC's Tom Housden, reporting on the Cambay find:

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, who were 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 120 feet.

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 (BBC article).

Several reports confirm this estimate. Housden added, "The whole model of the origins of civilisation will have to be remade from scratch."

Unheard-of Scope of Cambay Ruins

The BBC article tells us that the remains of this ancient city stand upon "enormous foundations." Marine archaeologists discovered them with a technology known as "sub-bottom profiling."

Author and filmmaker Graham Hancock, an authority on archaeological investigations of ancient civilizations, reportedly said that the evidence was compelling. For example, he said that the oceanographers had found two large blocks that were larger than anything that's ever been found. "Cities on this scale," Hancock told BBC Online, "are not known in the archaeological record until roughly 4,500 years ago when the first big cities begin to appear in Mesopotamia.

Theorists are postulating that the area where this city exists was submerged when the ice caps melted at the end of the last Ice Age.

"A month ago in mid-January [2002]," says Hancock on his website, "marine scientists in India announced they had sonar images of square and rectangular shapes about 130 feet down off the northwestern coast of India in the Gulf of Khambhat (Cambay). . . . [There are] sonar shapes with 90-degree angles. The Indian Minister of Science and Technology ordered that the site be dredged. What was found has surprised archaeologists around the world".


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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow! this information is obviously so compelling that there seems to be no updates over the last 10 years!!!

WTF?

Anyone?

Anonymous said...

This is obviously in the process of being marked as fake or a mistake! I am waiting for this to start hitting the media as a mistake and a hoax!

This in addition to many other sites (which already have been labelled as hoax by the masses) are the single proof we need to start realizing our civilization has been under control and manipulation for the past 4000 years.

Meaning that our "modern" history, and what the world takes as fact for the start of our civilization (be it religious text or so called scientific facts) are simply manipulated and a well planned lie in order to control and hide the truth from us!

Think about it, everything is making sense now! Connect all our religious texts with Science, and now these new findings...

There are those that would rather we do NOT find and learn about our forgotten history, our true nature and our origins!

I'm not talking Illuminati or any of that crap! I'm talking about those that are SO secretive that even created all modern day conspiracies to throw even the most doubtful off track!

kunal said...

Why don't you try this one whole discovery is here with its evidence.

http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/BadrinaryanB1.php?p=4

Anonymous said...

Report by BADRINARYAN BADRINARYAN, chief geologist with the scientific team from the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) responsible for the underwater surveys in the Gulf of Cambay:

http://archaeologyonline.net/artifacts/cambay


Summary of arguments against NIOT claims:

http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl1905/19050670.htm

Anonymous said...

Western historians will suppress this as they have since 2002. All the sites and references are being taken down. But in fact, this development explains exactly why later sites like Mohenjo Daro and Dhola Vira were carefully planned by engineers with prior knowledge of water collection and disposal, and why sites were abandoned as rivers shifted and dried up. I suspect there were later movements into the fertile crescent as well as north and east, with significant cultural influence on science, astronomy and religion

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