Posted on 08/30/2016 7:35:03 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Dwarka is one of the most ancient cities of India. The city, five miles long and two miles wide, is located 120 feet underwater in the Gulf of Cambay off the western coast of India. The discovery was particularly astonishing to scientists as the area predates all other finds in the area by at least 5,000 years, suggesting a much longer history of the civilization than was first assumed (carbon dating estimates the site to be almost 10,000 years old). Marine scientists used sonar images and sum-bottom profiling to locate the lost ruins and it is believed the area was submerged when the ice caps melted in the last Ice Age.
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Older than Stonehenge and the Pyramids, Ggantija Temples in Xaghra, Gozo, are one of the most important archaeological sites in Malta. These two temples are notable for their gigantic Neolithic structures, which were erected during the Neolithic Age (c. 3600-2500 BC). The ruins had been noted since 1772 and the remains were ‘cleared’ (not excavated) in 1827 under Colonel Otto Bayer. The Ggantija megalithic complex consists of two temples surrounded by a massive common boundary wall, which was built using the alternating header and stretcher technique, with some of the megaliths exceeding five meters in length and weighing over fifty tons
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Giant Stone Spheres of Costa Rica...are one of the strangest mysteries in archaeology discovered in the Diquis Delta of Costa Rica. Since the 1930s, hundreds of stone balls have been documented, ranging in size from a few centimetres to over 2 metres (6.6 ft) in diameter... Almost all of the balls are made of granodiorite, a hard, igneous stone that outcrops in the foothills of the nearby Talamanca range.
These rocks are thought to have been built between 1000 and 500 B.C....
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Personally, I believe the continental shelves were all dry land before the biblical flood, caused by a close orbit contact with another planet and its ice moon, which became our polar ice caps - and rain everywhere else.
Go ahead, laugh it up, fuzzball!
If only they has built wind farms instead of burning fossil fuels. They’d still be on dry land today.
what an amazing world we live on!
I know for a fact that Costa Ricans are very proud of their stone balls. No one knows who made them, or what they were for, but they did leave them all over the place. You’ll find them in museums, of course, and on rich people’s lawns.
Thanks for posting this. Very interesting.
In another 10,000 years, we wouldn’t recognize anything we have today...But who, today, really gives a crap???
“The discovery was particularly astonishing to scientists as the area predates all other finds in the area by at least 5,000 years, suggesting a much longer history of the civilization than was first assumed (carbon dating estimates the site to be almost 10,000 years old).”
More of an argument why not to rely on carbon dating alone than anything else. The ruins are simply not consistent with being that much older than nearby historical ruins that we can date more reliably. There would have been several intervening invasions and cultural shifts if that were true, but that simply isn’t evident when you compare the ruins.
Oh sorry, those were mine. I was wondering where I left them!
Fascinating. Thank you.
It’s in an area which flooded at the end of the last ice age. And that was about 10,000 years ago.
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Before the current re-writing of history, how much did we know?
Let’s take for a moment, the fantastic world written about by Robert E. Howard. Snow-covered mountainous clan life to desert caravans, across steppes to large city-states, even references to ‘old Khitai’.
Some would say, “Oh, that’s just the overactive imagination of a recluse in the wastelands of Texas.”
For a man who stayed home with a sickly mother, and never strayed far from home, to have all that come from within him, without one iota of information of the outside world, is for me, a very large stretch.
Now today, there is talk, though never truly revealed, that under all the ice, in all the places of the world, lies buried ancient cities. Why are they not discussed? Who are they protecting?
These 10 mysterious places do engage the mind, yes.
“From the times when the oceans drank Atlantis ...”
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But wait; Earth is only 6,000 years old...
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