Discovered: A sunken island, an Indian Ocean Atlantis?

groundviews ^ | April Fools Day 2009 | Banyan News Reporters

[SunkenCiv]

Marine archaeologists have just discovered evidence of a large submerged landmass southeast of Sri Lanka. They believe it could be a legendary lost island closely linked to the culture and history of Sri Lankan people. The landmass is estimated to be between 450,000 and 475,000 square kilometres, which is about seven times the total land area of Sri Lanka. "This could well be the long lost island of Irisiyawa, which is euphemistically mentioned in our chronicles and hinted at in the writings of Greek historians," said Dr Godwin Samarawickrama, a maritime historian at the Indian Ocean Institute based in Melacca, Malaysia... Irisiyawa's existence is first mentioned in the Sri Lankan chronicle of Culavamsa. Sinhalese Sandesa (message poem) writers in the 14th to 16th centuries often refer to the enormous psychological effect by sunken Irisiyawa on royal families, aristocracy and ordinary people. Some say the legacy of Irisiyawa has continued well into the twenty first century. Other experts are more sceptical, and point out long-standing speculations about Kumari Kandam, a legendary sunken landmass said to have been located to the south of present-day Kanyakumari District at the southern tip of India.

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Lost Civilisation From 7,500 BC Discovered Off Indian Coast

[Cold Heart]

I used to transit that area regularly by ship. I always wondered about what was going on presently and historically in areas I traveled.

[SunkenCiv]

One of the consequences of the SE Asian tsunami five (?) years ago was to uncover some ‘lost cities’ off the coast of India; also a long-submerged statue was tossed up on a beach there.