NASA digital images discover ancient "Ramayana" bridge between India, Lanka

PTI ^ | Washington, October 09 2002 | Editorial Staff

[vannrox]

NASA digital images discover ancient "Ramayana" bridge between India, Lanka
PTI
Washington, October 09 2002

The NASA Shuttle has imaged a mysterious ancient bridge between India and Sri Lanka, as mentioned in the Ramayana.

The evidence, say experts matter-of-factly, is in the Digital Image Collection.

The recently discovered bridge, currently named as Adam's Bridge and made of a chain of shoals, 30 km long, in the Palk Straits between India and Sri Lanka, reveals a mystery behind it.

The bridge's unique curvature and composition by age reveals that it is man-made. Legend as well as Archeological studies reveal that the first signs of human inhabitants in Sri Lanka date back to the primitive age, about 17,50,000 years ago and the bridge's age is also almost equivalent.

[vannrox]

Take that! Yet another discovery that validates what "alternative" Archaeologists have been saying for years.

[jlogajan]

Is that 17 million or 1.7 million years ago? Anyhow, there weren't any "humans" back then.

[Frank_Discussion]

I'm betting 17,500 is the number. Jibes with what I've read.

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[Commie Basher]

Is that 17 million or 1.7 million years ago? Anyhow, there weren't any "humans" back then.

Art Bell has had guests that suggest that advanced humanoid civilizations existed on Earth 100 million years ago. And Bell has speculated that there may have been many such civilizations, cropping up every 100 million years or so, until they destroy themselves and we struggle upward once again.

[Pravious]

Are the NASA images available on-line? Does anyone have a link, if so?

[linear]

Try here: http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/iams/images/earth/STS067/lowres/10124769.jpg

Doesn't look particularly man-made to me.

[Tunehead54]

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[bobsatwork]

Thanks for the image link.
I agree with you. Doesn't look man-made; doesn't look like a bridge.

[balrog666]

I agree with you. Doesn't look man-made; doesn't look like a bridge.

Looks like a standard sand bar.

[r9etb]

Looks like a standard sand bar.

Maybe, maybe not. Were it not for the "bridge" area it looks like the channel would support some vigorous currents (look at how blue the water is on either side of the bay) -- which possibly argues against the natural formation of such a sandbar.

I note that 17,500 years ago was during the last ice age -- ocean levels would have been lower, so if there was a low ridgeline along that route, it might have allowed people to move on foot between the two areas. No need for a manmade bridge then, and it would explain how a sandbar might occur naturally.

[swarthyguy]

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[balrog666]

I note that 17,500 years ago was during the last ice age -- ocean levels would have been lower, so if there was a low ridgeline along that route, it might have allowed people to move on foot between the two areas. No need for a manmade bridge then, and it would explain how a sandbar might occur naturally

That sounds like a better explanantion.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

And Bell has speculated that there may have been many such civilizations, cropping up every 100 million years or so, until they destroy themselves and we struggle upward once again.

They were dinosaurs.

And isn't that a picture of the moon?? Or was that another thread?

[colorado tanker]

Ocean levels have risen a lot, even in the last 5,000 years.

[capitan_refugio]

Although I don't know the scale of the features in the high altitude photo, the "bridge" appears to be consistant with a naturally-formed feature. As a result of prevailing winds and currents, especially longshore currents (set up by the wave interaction with the shoreline), it is not unusual to form long sand spits and barrier bars which are sometime submerged.

Several good examples of this type of shallow water and nearshore feature are: (1) the barrier bars and beaches south of Asbury Park, NJ; (2) the Cape Hatteras area, NC; (3) Galveston Island, TX, and; (4) Morro Bay, CA.

The Morro Bay example is on a much small scale, but is a good one. Morro Rock (a craggy, volcanic hill that sits north of the bay) has been alternately connected and separated from the mainland several times over the past 400+ years. South of the Rock is a long sandy peninsula which extends south to the Montana de Oro point. The Rock today is connected to the mainland by another spit, but it is breached by heavy wave action from time to time and is then underwater. Sedimentological and archeological work I did at the Bay over 20 years ago showed that the long, linear spit has been present at least since the last ice age (about 20,000 years ago). Indian "kitchen middens" showed human inhabitation in the area for at least 6,000 years.

At one time the long linear spit may have connected to Morro Rock (today there is the small entrance to the bay and harbor, which is dredged). This seems like a reasonable analong to the situation shown in the satellite photo.

The color changes in the water are a result of both water depth and the nature of the sediments or rocks on the ocean floor. There is no way to tell how thick the sediment is beneath the ocean floor, or if it is underlain by bedrock. If the shallow sediments are underlain by bedrock, the the currents would have had to cut a channel through the isthumus (which is unlikely). Interesting picture though - I'm going to have to break out the atlas to figure out precisely where this is located.

[freebounder]

Hmm. Looks like its waaaaay past time for Oxford to revise its chronology. ;)

[Lessismore]

I note that 17,500 years ago was during the last ice age -- ocean levels would have been lower,

I checked a map of continent contours at -110 meters that I think blam posted a link to. Sri Lanka is a wide, Florida-like penninsula off southeast India at that sea level.

My recollection is that -110 meters was the sea level at the last glacial maximum, about 18,000 years ago.

[blam]

Here is the map Lessismore:

Click here

I like this map.

[blam]

Lost Civilisation From 7,500BC Discovered Off Indian Coast

That's 9,500 years ago. (Remember that we were all taught that civilization began 3,500BC in the Middle-East, eh?)