2000-year-old temple found underwater off Indian coast

Digital Journal ^ | April 2, 2016 | Sravanth Verma

[SunkenCiv]

File photo

[SunkenCiv]

[driftdiver]

Doesnt look underwater to me. :)

[Westbrook]

Was it underwater because of global warming?

[blueunicorn6]

“Honey, the ocean seems to be going away.

Oh.....it’s making a big wave.

I wonder what that means?

Look at those big rocks out there where the ocean used to be. Let’s go look at them. Maybe there’s some shells there.”

Hunting for sea shells.....not for the faint hearted.

[Da Coyote]

Clearest water evah!

[SunkenCiv]

That photo was taken just before the ocean water surged back in. ;’)

[djf]

Damn those suv’s and global warming!

[SunkenCiv]

Tsunami, tsunamyou, tsunamthey...

[mountn man]

I wonder if man made global warming will be blamed for putting them underwater?

[mountn man]

Looks like I was a little slow on the gorebull warming band wagon.

[edpc]

The Temple of Doom! Leave it be......

[DannyTN]

I hate when I build on land that sinks under the ocean and is lost for 1000 years.

[builder]

Even back then, real estate was all about location - location - location.

[hal ogen]

No...the only thing “underwater” because of gloBULL warming is our economy.

[Fred Nerks]

Shore Temples of Mamallapuram

Lion statue that appeared after the December 26, 2004 tsunami on the beach of Mahabalipuram, India.

[ApplegateRanch]

OMG! They both are upright figures, have bulging brows, small eyes, funny noses, large mouths; and are carved from rock: they're just exactly the same!! The ancient Indians MUST have contacted and taught the Mayans!!! /sarc

[Fred Nerks]

The myths of Mahabalipuram were written down by British traveler J. Goldingham, who visited the town in 1798, at which time it was known to sailors as the Seven Pagodas. Legend had it that six temples were submerged beneath the waves, with the seventh temple still standing on the seashore.

Best-selling British author and television presenter Graham Hancock took these stories seriously. The hypothesis that there may be ruins underwater off the coast of Mahabalipuram has been around at least since the eighteenth century among scholarly circles.

“I have long regarded Mahabalipuram, because of its flood myths and fishermen’s sightings as a very likely place in which discoveries of underwater structures could be made, and I proposed that a diving expedition should be undertaken there,” said Hancock.

Hancock’s initiative resulted in the Dorset, England-based Scientific Exploration Society and India’s National Institute of Oceanography joining hands. In April this year, the team made a spectacular discovery

SOURCE:CITY UNDER THE SEA

Mamallapuram, also known as Mahabalipuram, is a town in Kancheepuram district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is around 60 km south from the city of Chennai. It is an ancient historic town and was a bustling seaport during the time of Periplus (1st century CE) and Ptolemy (140 CE). Ancient Indian traders who went to countries of South East Asia sailed from the seaport of Mahabalipuram.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

[indcons]

That’s the Shore Temple, the only one remaining. BTW, this is not news for the locals - lore has always mentioned the 6 other structures that went underwater as the ocean submerged them.