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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....

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

“discovered in the Diquis Delta of Costa Rica”

I’m thinking the stones are currency, and they found the central bank.

Okay, never mind.

5.56mm


41 posted on 08/30/2016 9:08:31 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Political Junkie Too

??? That seems odd.


42 posted on 08/30/2016 9:19:38 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Political Junkie Too
SunkenCiv seems to be on time-out. He's now posting at GOP Briefing Room.

I was banned too - for posting the Tim Russet interview of Trump on abortion.

43 posted on 08/30/2016 9:21:02 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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There is a bunch of ancient evidence that humanity was flourishing before Egypt. The problem is that when stuff comes back 40-50,000 years it doesn’t fit the current paradigm of archeologists.

Man has been around for a long time. Through floods, cataclysms, and war.

If we accept stuff as it is, rather than fitting it into a narrow range of acceptable pigeon holes, we might be thrilled with what we find.


44 posted on 08/30/2016 9:23:45 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: JimRed

Velikovsky? Seriously?


45 posted on 08/30/2016 9:24:53 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (AMERICA IS DONE! When can we start over?)
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To: BenLurkin

No, not the carbon-14 dating, other evidence.

For example, the memory of this city was preserved in the current cultures of India, before it was rediscovered. These were not the same cultures that were present 10,000 years ago, so how would they know of the city if it were that old? India has suffered repeated invasions and displacements of culture over that period.

Also, the architecture of the city is not indicative of being 10,000 years old. In that time period, the style of architecture worldwide was megalithic, but these structures look nothing like that. Instead, they are quite similar to much more recent styles that can be seen in monuments that are preserved all over India. It beggars belief that they would develop a style of architecture, forget it for thousands of years, and then independently develop it again.


46 posted on 08/30/2016 9:26:50 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: BenLurkin

bump


47 posted on 08/30/2016 9:40:44 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("They only smear who they fear." --Diamond and Silk)
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To: JBW1949
"Who really give a ..."

Your comment had me recall something I read years (30+?) ago. In the super-future, all evidence of our civilization will gone and our language and even our beings will have changed but one thing would still be around and need to be dealt with:

Radio active waste. The article went on to cover the necessity of conveying the knowledge that "danger lies beneath here".

48 posted on 08/30/2016 9:45:20 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: backwoods-engineer

Have you read him? Because if nothing else, he is a good read!


49 posted on 08/30/2016 10:16:43 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Political Junkie Too; SunkenCiv

That’s interesting information; I wonder how many others have been similarly affected.


50 posted on 08/30/2016 10:17:01 AM PDT by Edward.Fish
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To: Mr. Douglas

Who is FUZZBALL?


51 posted on 08/30/2016 10:21:03 AM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: T-Bone Texan
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.

I don't know, I got one for adamantly stating that the BLM movement was completely foreseeable and a consequence of not holding our authorities (in general, the police in particular w/ BLM) to accountability… apparently noting that the police committing criminal acts are not held to account makes me too radical, even though my assertion always is/was that the law applies to everyone, period. (Who would have thought that sentiment would be controversial on FR?)

52 posted on 08/30/2016 10:21:15 AM PDT by Edward.Fish
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To: SunkenCiv

Hope you’re back soon. Your pings are/were some of the best stuff on FR.


53 posted on 08/30/2016 10:22:13 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: BenLurkin
It’s in an area which flooded at the end of the last ice age. And that was about 10,000 years ago.

So they say. But it could have also been a victim of a huge subsidence quake within the last 5,000 years that dropped it from say, 25 feet above sea level to 120 feet underwater. The tsunami resulting on the adjoining land which remained above sea level would have killed most or all of the nearby population, and the city would have been forgotten in the day to day struggle for survival over the next 20-50-100 years.

If it was simply flooding, the buildings would be more preserved; a quake with subsidence would have collapsed them to rubble. Which is the case here?

54 posted on 08/30/2016 10:28:56 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: FatherofFive
Me too.
55 posted on 08/30/2016 10:29:07 AM PDT by Edward.Fish
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To: Edward.Fish
That's where the NeverTrump people went. There are a LOT of familiar names over there.

-PJ

56 posted on 08/30/2016 10:29:30 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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To: Political Junkie Too; jimrob
SunkenCiv seems to be on time-out. He's now posting at GOP Briefing Room.

While I admit it's none of my business, I would like to know what he did to earn that time-out, so I can avoid the same transgression!

57 posted on 08/30/2016 10:34:14 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: BenLurkin
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.

The centimeter-small stones are nicknamed "McConnell". The 2 meter ones are called "Hillary".

58 posted on 08/30/2016 10:39:20 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Trump is to the political class what Uber is to taxicab companies)
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To: JimRed

SunkenCiv’s account is not suspended.


59 posted on 08/30/2016 10:42:50 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Twinkie

Obscure Star Wars reference. ;-)


60 posted on 08/30/2016 10:45:10 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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