Lost Civilisation From 7,500 BC Discovered Off Indian Coast

Ananova ^ | 1-16-2002

[blam]

Lost civilisation from 7,500 BC discovered off Indian coast

Archaeologists have found a civilisation dating back to 7,500 BC off India's western coast.

The find is 5,000 years older than any previously unearthed civilisation in the subcontinent.

Researchers uncovered pottery, beads, sculptures, a fossilised jaw bone and human teeth at the Gulf of Cambay site.(DNA tests?)

Previously, the oldest known civilisations were the Harrapan and Indus Valley communities - which date from around 2,500BC.

Murli Manohar Joshi, minister for human resources and ocean development, told The Times of India: "The findings buried 40 metres below the sea reveal some sort of human civilisation, a courtyard, staircase, a bathroom or a temple."

Researchers used carbon-dating techniques. The find was made by the Indian ocean development and archaeology institutes.

Story filed: 12:43 Wednesday 16th January 2002

[MattinNJ]

Graham Hancock BTTT

[CobaltBlue]

Long article on the Harappan civilization in the Gulf of Cambay/Combay region:
http://www.harappa.com/lothal/text.html

[CobaltBlue]

Does the fact that the artifacts were on a Graham Hancock website make them, ipso facto, spurious?

[Centurion2000]

bump

[pabianice]

They found Atlantis???

[blam]

"They found Atlantis???"

Nah. Atlantis is in or around South America.(?)

I just ordered the Book Voyages Of The Pyramid Builders by Dr. Robert Schoch. I hope to gain some insight into many underwater cities. We'll see....

[pabianice]

My bet's on the Gao'uld.

[blam]

"My bet's on the Gao'uld. "

What's that?

[pabianice]

"My bet's on the Gao'uld. " What's that?

That's the DHD, integral component of the Stargate, left after the Stargate was buried to keep the Gao'uld from returning to Earth. Approximate age: 8,000 B.C.

http://www.scifi.com/stargate/

[blam]

Bump.

[Free Vulcan]

self-ping

[pctech]

Atlantis?

Oh man, you stole my line!

[Phsstpok]

I did a search on this subject. All I found were articles about the Bavarian Illuminati and 3,000 year old Egyptian aircraft. No word about these nine fellows. Can you provide a link?

drop the period within the quotes for the Google search. Lot's of hits.

From the first web site on Google: http://www.room23.de/786.html

This [legend] goes back to the time of the Emperor Asoka, who reigned in India from 273 B.C.

[blam]

"This [legend] goes back to the time of the Emperor Asoka, who reigned in India from 273 B.C."

Got it. Interesting, thanks.

[swarthyguy]

BUMP. Great piece.

Arthur C. Clarke's new book has a great quote from Kipling about ancient and forgotten cities.

A nice fictional take on the old cities, of all people, is William Burroughs (yes, that one) "Cities of the Red Night". Sort of a phantasmagorical take on an ancient civilization in the Gobi Desert.

[muawiyah]

He's the guy who invented the PC (Personal Computer). Certainly everybody remembers his "typewriter" in "Naked Lunch" ~ (and not everybody in FR can tell me they've never checked out that particular story).

This is the guy who ended up shooting his wife by accident.

[swarthyguy]

I read Naked Lunch. Good thing I hadn't eaten lunch.

Cities is a good read, tho.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Evidence of the Flood.

[Hollywoodghost]

Maybe this is one of the cities submerged by the great flood of Noah? Could be?

[Siegfried]

I've been known to pray to the porcelain god myself. Especially in my younger years.

I'm waiting for archaelogists to dig up an SUV and declare it as final proof that this early civilization caused its own demise through global warming (or cooling, or something else).