Dwarka, India - 12,000 Year Old City of Lord Krishna Found - *Full* Video Lecture - UPSC

the end of the great Ice Age shaped the
world we live in today a mass of water
poured into the oceans as the ice caps
melted sea level rose 400 feet floods
swallowed up the best coastal lands on
earth all traces of the people who lived
on them vanished beneath the sea could
this menace flooding have been the
inspiration for hundreds of flood myths
from all around the world
with all the flood myths are just that
myths and should not be taken seriously
right in India
new evidence from the bottom of the sea
is showing substance to the myths
this is the Gulf of Cambay in the
Northwest India in late 2001 scientists
doing pollution studies made an
astonishing accidental discovery
25 miles from shore at a depth of 120
feet
they picked up traces of two ancient
cities covering a large area of the
seabed the discovery threatens to
overturn everything that archaeologists
have believed about the origins of
civilization they found two cities size
of Manhattan with massive walls and
plazas
and man-made objects from the submerged
cities have yielded carbon dates up to
9,500 years old that's about 5,000 years
older than any city discovered by
archaeologists anywhere it means we
could be dealing with a civilization
lost at the end of the Ice Age perhaps
even one of those that the flood myths
speak of which flourished before history
began I'm keen to test the idea that
ancient civilizations could have
flourished in coastal areas during the
Ice Age when the ice melted and the
seeds rose the floods obliterated the
coastal civilization the survivors
recorded the trauma in myths
Christians Jews and Muslims all know the
story of the Biblical Flood and Noah's
Ark and plato's myth of Atlantis is
universally famous but India may have
the oldest flood myths in the world
I'm going there to investigate I begin
my journey in the ancient town of Dwarka
on the tip of the Gujarat Peninsula it
Huddle's at the foot of a spectacular
medieval temple dedicated to the god
Krishna the most famous of the Indian
gods
the temple is built on top of earlier
temples dating back more than 3,000
years it commemorates a mythical city
said to have been established by Krishna
before the flood and destroy on the same
day that Krishna departed from the earth
the ocean submerged
Amaka
the temple is a shrine to Krishna and
every day a new flag is raised to
commemorate the myth of the submerged
city every year hundreds of thousands of
pilgrims flock from all corners of India
to mingle in its courtyards and pave in
the oceans sacred waters
with point the way to an underwater find
in the 1980's the Dwarka flood myth
received a boost when ruins immediately
presumed to be those of the lost city of
Krishna were discovered in the bay in
front of the temple and leading
archaeologists estimated on the basis of
a hunch that they were dated to around
1500 BC but since there's no real
evidence for that date I want to take a
look at them myself a group of marine
archaeologists from India's National
Institute of Oceanography have agreed to
take me diving and wanted so we moved
over this concentration of ruins so are
these mainly individual blocks are they
individual boys in each we think of a
particular structure I see hello the
blocks are scattered yes I'm working
with marine archaeologists three
cigarettes and dr. Carr's maker they
were here are you coming all on the line
of the ridge okay
what's hard looking at structures
underwater is to be sure whether
strange-looking objects are just weird
natural formations or whether they've
been cut and shaped by man it becomes
clearer when you find clean-cut
individual blocks like these
the next question with any underwater
site is how old is it this site is so
shallow and close to the shore that
recent earthquakes could have submerged
it not necessarily rising sea levels at
the end of the Ice Age so it wasn't a
big surprise to learn that Sundaresh and
Gower are now dismissing these finds
that have nearly hundreds of years old
this clearly can't be the ruins of the
ancient mythical city of Dwarka stone
anchors of a type made in India in the
Middle Ages prove that the ships at that
time once more here so I guess besides
me we are looking liquid earth century
AD before gaze into the Eddy so I think
the structure also may be a pipe we
found in the previous oh we're talking
actually about a medieval yeah as you
can give it
do you accept the conventional dating of
1500 BC or so for this site or do you
think we should put a big question mark
over that day
I think he'll answer the question we
should put a big question mark about you
have you found any material evidence on
which we can be sure about the date
right can we find any durable
material at effect we have to continue
our search using when we can yeah
have you ever gone like ten kilometers
out that way so for ten kilometer from
here no here no time so we are done I do
to support my theory of a much older
origin for civilization
I need a flood myth directly connected
to large-scale underwater ruins more
than eight thousand years old I now know
that Broca's ruins f initely aren't that
old but what they do testify to is the
continuous flooding of this coastline
and the science tells us that we're here
inland to wet was once an enormous
antediluvian domain extending more than
50 kilometers out to sea the
archaeological surveys here haven't even
begun they have to go out far out from
shore and into deeper water
the myth of Dwarka is part of a larger
and older cycle of Indian myths that
speak of a flood survival mono who
becomes the father of future mankind
like the biblical Noah model builds a
survival ship takes the seeds of
essential plants as a way of restoring
agriculture when it's out that their
illusion is off come to the rest at last
on a mountaintop
typically marvelous described as a girl
to Rishi or sage and as a master of yoga
his mission is to rekindle civilization
after the flood could science give this
myth any support was India water flooded
in such a cataclysm
to find out I travel to the north of
England to my old University Durham to
meet one of the world's leading
specialists on sea-level rise dr. Glen
Mills of the department of geology
drawing on the latest data he's able to
produce computer simulations of how
coastlines would have looked at
different stages of the ice age you see
Indian continent grown a 1,000 years ago
and if we focus in on the northwestern
part we can see a lot of the
coastline was exposed there's a huge
area xqg reexpose of the continental
shelf so progress forward to 13 and a
half nice change
so drastic I when developing off the
west coast of India to me that's an
extraordinary vision it's because we
know it's not there now it's like a
ghost island you'll notice as we
progress further through time that
golfer can be gradually gets more and
more flooded 12.4
my Savior seven point seven six point
nine and uh huge change quite dramatic
well in that eight hundred year window
the Gulf of Cambay is in dated what
interests me is that the flooded domains
of India's Northwest life side by side
with India's oldest and most mysterious
civilization the Indus Valley
Civilisation so-called because its first
cities were found along the Indus River
it's one of the least understood
cultures from the ancient and believed
to be the beasts covering more than a
million square miles it flourished about
the time the pyramids were built in
Egypt but I'm interested in it because
even the most conservative archeologists
think it's roots go back much further to
small-scale settlements dating to the
end of the Ice Age when Glen Mills maps
show that huge floods ravaged India for
the Indus Valley Civilisation even
missing link to lost cities of the
underworld that I'm seeking to find out
I'm going to DA levira in the lonely
salt marshes of the Rann of Kutch it's
one of the largest and best-preserved
ancient cities of the Indus Valley
Civilisation to explore the missing link
I'm searching for clues about its
heritage and the ideas that made it tick
archaeologist dr. bitched has been
working on the whole Indus Valley
mystery can you actually say how old the
site is are you sure of that
it's an old 2,000 before Christ 5,000
years ago right thousands years ago this
correct this one focus was lead up here
right is true one that focused was
converted to Castle around that fortress
a really sophisticated city developed
then you had to write but unlike the
Egyptian hieroglyphs nobody's ever found
a way to crack the code of their
enigmatic script they knew a lot about
urban planning and the necessities of
urban life the sort of knowledge that
only comes from centuries perhaps
thousands of years of accumulated
experience
5,000 years ago they were designing a
water system that was way ahead of its
time including rock-hewn reservoirs
built to fight a deteriorating climate
and a series of savage droughts
civilization like this doesn't emerge
overnight as the climate changed around
them the ancient inhabitants of dollar
vieira made themselves masters of water
and water engineering they cut this huge
system out of solid rock and then they
lined it with beautifully cut pieces of
masonry it's a wonderful achievement to
keep and preserve the water through the
dry times to ensure the populations
needs were met
the people who built this amazing city
5000 years ago were at the end of a
cycle not the beginning but from my
investigation the big question is just
how far back does the Indus Valley
culture go
is it possible to trace it back to its
source just like this so it would be
fair to say that the glory of this site
is between 3,000 BC in 2000 BC renessa
yes what about before 3,000 BC before
2000 BC what was the earth which one no
there might not be any culture possibly
or we will find in future something
are there physicists
but archaeologists have already found
related sites in the foothills of the
Himalayas that they back much further
there's simple farming settlements
hundreds of miles from the sea near high
mountains places that would have made a
natural refuge for the survivors of the
floods that I now know took place in
Northwest India at exactly the same time
is it a coincidence that the ancient
Indian tradition of Manu speaks of a
flood that destroyed a former
civilization and of survivors who
retreated to the mountains to start
again the myth of Manu is part of a vast
oral tradition that includes the Vedas
India's most ancient scriptures most
experts think the Vedas were composed
around 1500 BC too late to shed any
light on the venn extinct indus valley
civilization and on our investigation
but might the experts be wrong the Veda
is a part of modern-day India an oral
tradition that's being memorized and
handed down for more than 2,000 years
but if an oral tradition can survive for
that long why not for six or even 9000
years could we find in the Vedas a clue
to the missing link between the Indus
Valley people at the end of the Ice Age
when the first Indus Valley sites were
excavated in the early 20th century the
City of Toronto revealed a startling new
discovery I want you to imagine for a
moment you are back in 1500 BC and are
looking out over the streets streets and
brick houses of mohenjo-daro suddenly
broken things begin to rise amongst them
now part of the main streets there are
streams a horde of swordsmen led by a
swaying figure in an outlandish chariot
the story I'm telling you is not fantasy
it is a literal interpretation of actual
discovery this is one of the massacres
took place Sumati Luke wheeler was one
of the 20th century's most influential
experts on the Indus Valley Civilization
and helped to shape the accepted view of
its origin 34 centuries after it
happened the archeologists of the 20th
century found these bones of the
massacred nude evidence of how an
age-long civilization perished within
they our ruler was one of those who
believed that groups of marauding nomads
invaded India from the
in West around 1500 BC according to this
Aryan invasion theory
the Vedas were the scriptures of the
nomads not of the civilized people of
the ancient Indus Valley cities but when
archaeologists inspected the skeletons
more closely the invasion theory was
cast into doubt
professor BB law was a student of
wheelers at mohenjo-daro but questions
the conclusions that we had drew from
the placing of the skeletons in
different levels some from the corners
some family we deliver some from the
every some of the nominally repeated a
forgiving element of the shape so
wonderful going to run in the same level
how come they belong to the area
Massacre away in reading agony in fact
they hadn't even died in battle when
examined the skeletons had indeed come
from different strata and that they died
at different times the Aryan invasion
theory should have died too but since it
was taught as established fact for most
of the 20th century it dies hard
now new linguistic evidence is also
undermining the invasion theory leading
archaeologists think it's likely that
the language in which the Vedas are
expressed has been evolving in India for
more than 8,000 years and so couldn't
possibly have been introduced by Aryan
invaders just 3,500 years ago
perhaps it's time to consider a
possibility archaeologists still find
unthinkable but the Vedas are the
scriptures of the Indus Valley
Civilisation itself
I went to the Indian capital Delhi to
discuss the problem with dr. David
Frawley one of the very few Westerners
recognized as a teacher of the Vedas so
we have this wonderful culture
apparently with no literature writing
whatsoever and then we have this
wonderful which is the largest unity and
deep unsophisticated incredibly well
thought out and no culture the attention
to any localization they rotate the
reach that you deliver both come from
the same area we will
the result says Frawley has been a huge
missed chance to know more about the
amazing Indus Valley Civilisation and to
explore its mysterious origins the
daters have been given to us as the
literature of India so they are
connected with that culture now if we
put together we see the image of a
sophisticated culture of kings and
Rishi's we see in the seals we see the
symbols of spirituality the symbols of
yoga the gods like Shiva we see the
whole basis of later Hindu civilization
that's what we should find as the
culture itself has continued
and I found an even more directly that
links the Vedas with the ancient Indus
Valley Civilisation it's the image of
the Indian flood survival invaders he's
a long-haired mystic and a master of
yoga the image of just such a mystic
seated in a recognized yoga posture
Tanza in more than 4,700 years old
founded the Indus Valley site of my
injured ro
slowly
hello mr. Gohar nice to see you here
welcome I have a question which concerns
this ancient image I'm wondering if you
recognize this position this is called a
snow level national it is said to be
seated on the lower most part of the
body he is trying to raise his energies
up supposed to be a very difficult
posture on the practitioners of yoga in
an advanced position you try to slightly
raise yourself and sit on the heels and
slowly you swing that looks like the
wings of the butterfly gasps I slowly
bring it down in due course this comes
down and touches the floor right that's
what we're saying here yes the seal
tells us that yoga was being practiced
in an advanced form nearly 5,000 years
ago
how would you believe yoga actually it
is builder we believe should be around
6,000 news old or even whoa yeah because
notice one thing he said to have
codified all these yoga into a form this
is 6,000 years aggressive stuff
something that he codified yes which
taught which means that which is
existing much before then one longer
take both your legs and take them go
back
manu the vedic flood survivor practiced
yoga and we now know the Indus Valley
cities honored the image of a yogic sage
how bigamy is it from there to speculate
that the mohenjo-daro figure represents
Manav himself and that the very des must
therefore have been known to the people
of the Indus Valley Civilisation
archaeologists - are noticing a lot of
common ground you find the hierarchy of
settlements
johani hierarchy in there la vista got
picture or even public architecture if
you are having the same kind of society
highly advanced civilization what
archaeology is doing is solving the
puzzle of the origins of the other
regulator well I think so much easy to
still hotly debated sorry
in Vedic tradition civilization was
kick-started in India by survivors of a
previous civilization from before the
flood
now geologists have discovered a lost
river which suggests the Vedas might
have been composed by people who
actually witnessed the end of the great
Ice Age it's another sign that the myths
deserve to be taken seriously as
historical documents and that they could
be incredibly old
I'm looking for the last Indian
civilization spoken of in flood myths
India's oldest Malaysian can be traced
back to the end of the Ice Age this
cheek-by-jowl with lands flooded at that
time
in the ran of Coach is one of the most
inhospitable areas on earth but around
the end of the Ice Age of vast river
flowed through it
making it rich and fertile the river was
the Saraswati and it's repeatedly
described in the ancient scriptures this
river sarasvati with foster and comes
forth the flood flows on surpassing him
majesty and might all other waters sure
in her cause from the mountains to the
ocean we don't see such a sarasvati
river today but your remote sensing
technology tells us more of the story
the diversity were generated in the
Himalayas and float down this channel
which is dried up Eastern it can be made
out
with the latest satellite images we can
trace the original course of the river
from the Ice Age glacier all the way to
the ocean
just as the myth says you see here as
the dark color channels it flowed bad
luck to the Industrial and okay
southward time and further flowing it
join with the runoff cuts it seems to be
a huge channel at this point what the 22
kilo meet when teachers were two
kilometres well it is described in the
Vedas that it was mightiest to lot of
that and that would be what sort of
period sir Pena thirty world was flowing
ten thousand years and it continued up
to say for now six thousand years before
present because the vendors described
the Saraswathi when it was in full flow
dr. Gupta's confirmation that it's
stopped flowing six thousand years ago
has one obvious implication at least
some parts of the Vedas must have been
composed earlier than six thousand years
ago during what archaeologists called
the pre Harappan period that led up to
the Indus Valley Civilisation not only
we have the ancients that is what they
do what is extraordinary is that we find
we have a encirclements on the ourselves
with each other it's revolutionary
enough to suggest that the Vedas could
date back to the Indus Valley
Civilisation today however more and more
Indian scholars are reaching the view
that they could be much older than that
it is not only an issue of her abandoned
Vedic civilizations being one and the
same but the fact that the regressor was
prominently a predominantly pre Harappa
Harappan civilization somewhere I think
I have called it twilight of the Vedic
age the wage is ended with the
disintegration of the Harappan
civilization
and the most amazing discovery might
date the Vedas to more than 11,000 years
ago leading experts from the Geological
Survey of India have argued that there
are verses which literally depict the
glacial milk and a ice age I will
declare the mainly deeds of Indra
she seems the dragon then disclosed the
waters the mortals tidal downward to the
ocean and many seas for food with waters
we do find an innovative installment and
symbolism of India destroying the dragon
who lives at the foot of the mountains
and releasing the waters to flow into
the sea and this is very much an end of
the Ice Age know where the great
relations broke up and the whole area of
North India became filled with great
rivers and became the area of habitation
so the symbolism is there of a cataclysm
but even if the myths are eleven
thousand years old they don't have a
search for a lost Indian civilization
that I still need a major underwater
archaeological site in the areas that
geology shows were flooded at the end of
the Ice Age researching Indian
archaeological journals I found a
neglected study describing a sunken ruin
it was in an area that I knew had been
flooded at the end of the Ice Age and
there's a flood myth pointing straight
to it
here deep in the tunnel part of South
India one of the most sacred sites is
the manake temple in the ancient city of
Madurai
analysts say the temple was established
by the survivors of a flood according to
the myths the survivors had belonged to
an earlier and highly advanced
civilization
it's most famous achievement before it
was swallowed by the sea was a great
academy or Sangha for the perfection of
human life
sunlen news collection it will come
together to win out a great work what
happened to it so exist okay
yes as a big land so many dealer then
the sea came and it swallowed the whole
thing that's what people say do we have
any descriptions of what sort of land it
was as the most ancient continent in the
whole world
the best and the ancient civilization
existed then and it belongs to color
right so this is about 10,000 years ago
sees the Sangam flood myth hints that
the remains of a lost civilization more
than 10,000 years old are waiting to be
discovered underwater around the shores
of South India in fact the dates given
in the myth go back to eleven thousand
six hundred years ago that's the same
timeframe given by Plato for the
submergence of Atlantis in another ocean
an ice age science confirms that huge
amounts of additional land were
available all around the coast of India
in the precise period signaled by the
Sangam myth so you can see if you focus
down here in the southern tip of India
and Sri Lanka looks more or less as it
goes pretty much as it looks now proceed
nine to ten point six point four sixteen
point four well they're extraordinarily
different from how they are today I mean
we're looking at almost a continuous
landmass soon ashes were the biggest sea
levels
so the next step of my journey is to go
to the coast to search under the waves
for the hidden history about lost
flooded terrain this is the granite
shore temple of Mahabalipuram
look in the Bengal in Southeast India
and is one of several dozen
extraordinary rock-hewn structures
scattered along the coast
I first came to this seashore when I was
five years old and that allowed to swim
here
Louis stayed in my memory is a
mysterious place where there's wonderful
granite temples the structures we can
see today are thought to be about 1,300
years old but the local worth has it
that they commemorate an earlier and now
lost city the city Boulder was a crowd
and arrogant giant named Mari and the
story goes that he made a city so
beautiful luxurious and ornate its
temples so tall its reliefs so rich that
the gods became jealous
they send orders to the god of the sea
to make loose his bones the city was at
once over formed by that a furious
element and the lost city of Marley
isn't just an old myth local fishermen
know all about it because it affects
their livelihood
first of all how did you come to know
that there are these structures
underwater
how did you learn about them when we
gonna wonder within a year put a video
wall of water Dalek edema ill Assad
animal a theory mod that I hope when you
were there when you threw the Nets they
get caught in these pillars that value
people and I will be Nellie when we talk
on the Nets they break no fish no pillar
in becoming windy so how many structures
underwater REI written something in the
mother Yahweh kunana getting in the
mother you cannot really belief animal
will be there and in a it's not like
that there are stones all on top of one
another
dilapidated together in area I can't get
permission from the Indian government to
dive at mahabali cool but I am able to
died a little shorter sounded alcohol
the same experts from the National
Institute of Oceanography who I work
with at market I found a structure that
is truly mysterious it lies almost three
miles from the present shoreline at a
depth of more than 70 feet it's
important because geologists colors have
the submerged about 11,000 years ago
when sea levels rose archeologists know
of no culture of that time capable of
building something so large and it's
mysterious because it was flooded at a
date when colonists say a high
civilization flourished on land that was
later swallowed up by the sea here as at
Mahabalipuram underwater structures
provide perfect shelters and breeding
grounds for fish doctor Gao explains
before the dive that archaeologists
don't believe in lost civilizations
11,000 years old acoustic is so big mr.
Chen I think it's about cooking it on um
it's a big structure and then we're
going to hear in this particular area if
you see there's such as such a big one
it was there a little bit finality
as we get ready for the first dive it
dawns on me how much I have at stake in
the next few hours
because of the structure I'm about to
see really is more than 11,000 years old
then it is almost by definition the work
of a lost civilization
reach bottom at about 70 feet the
visibility is pretty bad
but soon Sundaresh brings me to a sheer
wall about twice the height of a man
that juts up out of this ancient
inundated plain it doesn't look like it
belongs here naturally at all Sundaresh
draws my attention to several heavily
overgrown courses of masonry
Oh
further along some brush points out a
second area of partially exposed
construction blocks
as we continue along the u-shaped
structure I see that almost every inch
of it is draped in fishermen's nets it
feels a bit eerie
looking at these straight lines on the
walls you can almost make out courses of
masonry I mean that that we're looking
at a man-made structure here there is a
lot of growth on reviewing the dive on
deck what convinces me is these clear
courses of individual blocks and the way
that the u-shaped structure sticks up so
unnaturally from the flat seabed
a computer model of the structure from
measurements taken by the ni o nadir is
the overview that the murky waters home
from divers and shows that other
structures stand nearby
perhaps it was an enclosure for ritual
purposes
back on deck Kamlesh water the
expedition leader confirms that further
anomalies have been identified in the
same area there are another four
structures around north of this place
and south of this person well we feel
that every believer we know from the
love people saying that there was there
are so much structures below this is one
place may be nice listen forgive three
or four structures along the coastline
they will they give us some good yes
unifier you can plot the relationships
registration we should put all the data
together and where it seems to me an
area that deserves a serious and
mysterious exact a couple of months
after I died at Papa home a news story
not picked up elsewhere appeared in the
Indian press announcing the discovery of
two lost cities a hundred twenty feet
under the sea of Northwest India
precisely where Glen Mills Maps had
shown a huge loss of land at the end of
the Ice Age I felt as though I was being
shown the Holy Grail nothing could stop
me from going there
in 2001 a team of geologists from
India's National Institute of ocean
technology made a series of startling
discoveries at the Gulf of Cambay
they're somehow readings show evidence
for two huge cities a hundred and twenty
feet underwater and the sample they've
collected from the seabed has been
carbon dated to the end of the Ice Age
the IOT experts aren't archaeologists
we're doing promotion studies ago but
what they found is of massive
archaeological significance
cookies flooded cities in the proof I've
been looking for which journey of
individual archaeology
usually women we went we thought
probably will be on a elephant site but
after seeing all the artifacts and
evidences what we have collected it
looks that they are before they are upon
you means in the end that history is
going to have to be looked at again
definitely maybe this is a beginning of
their major discovery for the world I
think so I think so it's the scale of
the sites which is so exciting groups
like yet been city our agreement of what
is a large in times but like the cities
are located right in the area that gun
known sea level rise data shows was
flooded between seven and eight thousand
years ago this was at the very end of
the Ice Age and was the last of three
major causes of meltwater release that
have been identified by geologists
quantity as a more than eight kilometers
long other one is almost nine kilometres
enormous enormous here both of them
appears to be along to our closest and I
realized I missed a sec yeah
have a look here this is a treasure
trove next dr. Madren Aryan took me to
see some of the artifacts they've
recovered by dredging the underwater
sites is our microcosm any can see
various shipping objects and polish to
use them for related purposes this is
like a super school yeah you can see the
shape of the air here they are men it's
very just because it's carved the same
on both and both sides human remains
include a fossilized Java bone and
vertebra and the artifacts show that
these people were skilled in making
pottery jewelry and other words the
seems to be almost like turned on some
societies it is a appears to be a very
good artifact but will the areas and
their instrument prepare and all the
things you see that's also they are made
through that and this one runs all the
way through and okay so this is
absolutely definitively
an object most startling of all a stone
slab was discovered with raised markings
which could push back the date of the
invention of writing to the end of the
Ice Age this is some of the images that
are picked up in the supporting
profiling the technique that detects
materials varied beneath the seabed
reveals the city's massive foundations
in between the seabed inducing soft
material right here the foundation of
the which has quite a different
character having around so this is
building foundation foundation and you
can feel the berm very relative you need
which are walls we are laws the biggest
surprise came from the side scan sonar a
being passed along the seabed to detect
solid objects the images shows
sophisticated geometrical structures
it's looking down on the seabed is very
bright angled structures are there for
some piece of an maker by a group body
makeup yeah
actually does it see the steps when
wrong looks like the anything
normally come across in a murrain vision
is obviously man-made and the doctor
veterinarian had something even more
spectacular to show me which looks like
a citadel thing ready to burn them or do
you know right
Wow you see very well peaches you can
see a lovely series of right angles here
then all Republic creatures yeah the
present length of this is a good 98 mega
we've created a computer simulation of
the Citadel
it gives some idea in an extent of the
great buildings for so long lost beneath
the waves how long might this society it
existed before it was flooded
all I want to do is go diving right away
but it's December 2001 there's political
tension in the neighborhood and Indian
Naval Intelligence has politely but
firmly declined my request to die
Indian IOT scientists themselves haven't
got yet and until they do or someone
does a question mark must hang over the
claims that are being made but the case
is getting stronger all the time
a month after I met them the niño team
released the results of carbon dating on
the artifacts recovered from the sunken
cities the results caused a sensation
around the world
one of the objects was dated to 7500 BC
four and a half thousand years before
the cities of Mesopotamia and Egypt how
long would it have taken a civilization
that was already here nine thousand five
hundred years ago 2 billion citizens
we could be looking at a previously
unknown high culture in existence around
the coastal margins of India perhaps as
much as 12,000 years ago and that's
precisely the period when the u-shaped
structure at the bottom of the Bay of
Bengal was asked on China
ancient flood myths series instead of
writing off as primitive fantasies as so
many archaeologists do then they can
point us towards new discoveries
discoveries that could rewrite this
I'm going to head east to put to the
test one more of the myths and the
mysterious people who will ready Moodle
we're doing extraordinary things at the
end of the Ice Age
more next week same son Declan
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we'll also be taking part in the live
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Robert Rodriguez gives his el Mariachi
the Hollywood treatments and it sounds
Weber's one brilliant remake Antonio
Banderas Salma Hayek and it typically
informs the Buscemi it's an absolute
rush with desperado