Posted on 02/12/2020 10:51:52 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Excavations in search of the lost city have been carried out on this site since the 1950s... prompted when researchers found a link between Purana Qila and one of India's most important texts, the Mahabharata.
This epic poem, about 100,000 verses long, is believed to have been written more than 2,400 years ago. It is hotly debated which parts of the text are based on fact and which elements are fictional. But it is considered to offer many reliable insights into this period of Indian history, including details on the city of Indraprastha and clues to its possible location.
Mahabharata is about the Kauravas and the Pandavas, two groups of relatives engaged in a long conflict with each other. It refers to Indraprastha as a major city that was the capital of the Pandava Kingdom from about 1400 BC. Indraprastha is considered to have been the first significant settlement in the Delhi area, which has since hosted a succession of kingdoms and giant civilisations. At some point, Indraprastha fell from grace, either conquered or abandoned. The ASI believes that Purana Qila may have been built on top of these ruins.
The mystery surrounding the lost city makes my visit to Purana Qila even more engrossing. It is already, at surface level, an extraordinary place. While New Delhi's Red Fort gets all the attention, and is swarmed by tourists, the comparatively overlooked Purana Qila is equally interesting. Built in the 1540s as the hub of a burgeoning city created by the Mughal Emperor Humayun, it was the site of a sequence of battles in the 16th century.
Fortunately this red sandstone complex remains in fine condition, decorated by three enormous and magnificent gates, called Humayun Darwaza, Bara Darwaza and Talaqi Darwaza.
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Huh, my editing must have been off, wiped out my reply #20.
Even more queer is, there is no such evidence at Kurukshetra, and in fact, there is zero evidence of ancient/prehistoric/undocumented nuclear war anywhere on planet Earth.
That’s a funny story, doesn’t happen to be true, unfortunately. :^) Most cuneiform tablets were found in batches, in the ruins of city-state archives around the Middle East, and of course the diplomatic archive at el-Amarna in Egypt.
Sonett suggests that a single supernova would produce two or three shock waves, an initial forward shock and a pair of reverse shocks from the initial expansion and a reflected wave from the shell boundary of a more ancient supernova.39,40 Fig. 2 shows that each episode in a series produced a similar amount of atmospheric radiocarbon. The sun lies almost exactly in the center41 of the Local Bubble, believed to be the result of a past nearby supernova event. A candidate for the reverse shock wave is the supernova remnant North Polar Spur, with an estimated age of 75,000 years and a distance of 130 ± 75 parsecs (424 light years),42 conveniently located in the north sky from where it would have preferentially irradiated the Northern Hemisphere. Assuming the Taylor flux is average and 1,000 neutrons are produced per erg of gamma-ray energy,43 the catastrophe would have released about 1016 erg/cm2 (2 x 108 cal/cm2), corresponding to a solar flare of 1043 ergs or a gamma-flash of 1054 ergs from a supernova about 1 parsec away.
S.C.--And what is the status of Betelgeuse? Variable currently low light phase? Or supernova possible/pending? (Maybe we should worry about it after the 1 mile asteroid this weekend!)
Whatever you do, don't say the name three times! :^)
Thanks-I love articles about lost ancient cities-hadn’t read anything about this one before...
I’m going to crank up Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” now...
That was their all-time peak, IMHO. It's one of the few (and the only longish one) that I still look forward to and crank up.
Geeze! You provided your entire catalogue of Betelgeuse links! Lets hope the axis is pointing away when it goes!
(And we avoid being shouldered by the blast wave! Heck of a thing to have your atmosphere blown away! Time to start prepping by filling those spare CO2 and Oxygen cylinders now!!!)
:^) BTW, I was all in a hurry when I posted that, and want to thank you for that citation you posted.
the Local Bubble
That'll make a good topic for the near future, I think; meanwhile, it reminds me, I've still got TSLA shares, I'm still making money like Capone, and need to pick up some antacids.
“Kashmir” is one of my favorites, too-I’ve always been into Zeppelin-I keep greatest hits CD in my truck to listen to when going to and from jobsites-my 1st favorite is “Black Dog”, with “Kashmir” a close 2nd...
The cub was exposed to the music hubby and I listened to from her first days-she was belting the 1st line when she was 3 or 4...
“Hey, hey mama said the way you move, gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove”...
I like the Helmet version of "Custard Pie" much better than I like most of the Zep catalog, but ironically, I tend to like some of the quieter Zep originals better than their bigger sound stuff. Also, I generally prefer the original blues songs to Zep's ripoffs (including Brownie and Sonny's "Custard Pie", for that matter).
I’m not fond of Zeppelin’s blues-if I’m going to listen to rock/blues, I like Aerosmith’s “What it Takes”, “Crazy”, etc-Steven Tyler wails the blues just right.
My parents listened to both C&W and Rock, and my mom was into blues, too-I liked Patsy Cline’s “Crazy”, and Lenny Welch’s “Since I Fell For You” when I was a kid-my mom and I used to sing along with the radio-she called those “torch songs”-a term I hadn’t heard before-I just liked the songs...
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