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10 amazing ancient wonders that still remain a mystery
thevintagenews.com ^ | 06/26/2016

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....

(Excerpt) Read more at thevintagenews.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: dwarka; godsgravesglyphs; gujarat; gulfofcambay; india; preharappan
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To: BenLurkin

No, it’s an area some people think flooded at that time, but other evidence indicates they are mistaken.


21 posted on 08/30/2016 8:28:30 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Scythian_Reborn

You know that’s a well known photoshop, right?


22 posted on 08/30/2016 8:29:00 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Political Junkie Too

Sunken Civ was/is a boon to this site.

I write haikus that explicitly state Huma munches on Hillary’s beaver, and no reprimand for me, so I wonder what the gigantic trespass was that he made.


23 posted on 08/30/2016 8:29:37 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: Boogieman

I think I understand now, you’re saying that the Carbon-14 dating refutes the pre-ice age hypothesis?


24 posted on 08/30/2016 8:30:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Mr. Douglas
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.

Read "Worlds in Collision" (1950) by Immanuel Velikovsky for a very interesting similar theory, and the evidence that brought it about. The information gained in the space age has confirmed some of his assumptions from way back then, and failed to refute others.

25 posted on 08/30/2016 8:31:29 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: T-Bone Texan

I caught some of the very last exchanges between the admin mod and Sunken Civ. There was an issue with repeated keyword spamming.


26 posted on 08/30/2016 8:31:47 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Scythian_Reborn
Terrordactyl ...
27 posted on 08/30/2016 8:32:34 AM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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To: Scythian_Reborn

28 posted on 08/30/2016 8:33:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: JimRed

Where do you think I got it from? ;-)

Actually, that and another interesting book called “The biblical flood and the ice epoch”. The author originally thought the planet that got close was Venus, but he changed his position on which planet, though I can’t recall which one.


29 posted on 08/30/2016 8:33:41 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: RegulatorCountry

I am a big fan of keyword spamming as long as it provides entertainment value.

So you know, any story about Huma gets the keyword “carpetmuncher”, et al.

I don’t know if that counts as spamming or just poor taste.


30 posted on 08/30/2016 8:34:29 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: T-Bone Texan

Carpet-munching Hildebeeste has got to be the very worst taste ...


31 posted on 08/30/2016 8:35:53 AM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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To: T-Bone Texan

You know that Huma’s loyalty to the Muslim Brotherhood is unwavering — that she is willing to “service” a disgusting pig like Hillary in furtherance of their goals.


32 posted on 08/30/2016 8:36:15 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: JimRed

The information gained in the space age has confirmed some of his assumptions from way back then, and failed to refute others.


What I find so interesting is, up until about 40 or 50 years ago, regarding the origin of the earth, scientists were uniformitarians, while Christians and creationists were “catastrophists”. That is, scientists believed in gradual change all around. Evolution, the formation of the planets, etc.

Then we got a good look at the planets, we gained a better understanding of the record of life, and now EVERYONE is a catastrophist.

Which side had to change? ;-)


33 posted on 08/30/2016 8:36:39 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: BenLurkin

Note to self.. don’t make a political joke.


34 posted on 08/30/2016 8:36:47 AM PDT by Leep (Cut the crap!)
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To: BenLurkin

Bookmarked.


35 posted on 08/30/2016 8:37:55 AM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: BenLurkin

https://www.google.com/search?q=Yonaguni+Monument+traces+of+drawings+of+animals+and+people+engraved+on+the+rocks+purveyor&tbm=isch&imgil=PJ-N3RjLRJ_sFM%253A%253B0nrYtN2afISq0M%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.crystalinks.com%25252FYonaguni_Monument.html&source=iu&pf=m&fir=PJ-N3RjLRJ_sFM%253A%252C0nrYtN2afISq0M%252C_&usg=__OtlHP3ga5D-jK7HINz0m60vCRr0%3D&biw=1034&bih=426&ved=0ahUKEwjAoqXIvenOAhUKVh4KHSxyDPMQyjcINw&ei=uanFV4DiGIqseazksZgP#imgdii=PJ-N3RjLRJ_sFM%3A%3BPJ-N3RjLRJ_sFM%3A%3BcYOFPwJKNDbDwM%3A&imgrc=PJ-N3RjLRJ_sFM%3A


36 posted on 08/30/2016 8:42:12 AM PDT by GOPJ (George Will:fly-overs might not know Senators names, but we know a bribe when we see one...)
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To: BenLurkin
Since the 1930s, hundreds of stone balls have been documented








37 posted on 08/30/2016 8:54:28 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Terry L Smith

And, “In Xanadu did Kublai Khan a stately pleasure dome decree.”

Some imaginations can be very active.


38 posted on 08/30/2016 8:59:19 AM PDT by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Aww ... I’m not sure where you found him, but if you’re in touch, give him a howdy and warmest regards from those of us who miss his GGG threads here. Hopefully the foul weather will blow over at some point.

Speaking of which, I wonder what happened to the “Not a ping list” guy. Kinda miss the burning smurfs, too.


39 posted on 08/30/2016 9:02:38 AM PDT by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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To: Kommodor
Someone else pointed out where he was posting these days, I just browsed over there and saw him.

I'm not registered, so I can't post.

-PJ

40 posted on 08/30/2016 9:05:49 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.From Foxnews, May 31,)
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