Lost Civilisation

badcompany · 3 May 2011 at 22:01

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1768109.stm

Found this link in amongst my old bookmarks now its an old article but was wondering if anything else was ever said/discovered about this?

Cosimo · 3 May 2011 at 22:21

They stopped looking in 2004:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_archaeology_in_the_Gulf_of_Cambay

and nothing has been established:

http://www.ancientsites.com/aw/Article/1099190

Castiel · 3 May 2011 at 23:17

Adds weight to some of the deluge myths I suppose.....

GreatAuk · 3 May 2011 at 23:19

Indeed, but there is no flood of reliable evidence in this particular case, it seems.

Castiel · 3 May 2011 at 23:24

GreatAuk said:
Indeed, but there is no flood of reliable evidence in this particular case, it seems.

Noah doubt it washed away....

Glaucus · 3 May 2011 at 23:26

GreatAuk said:
Indeed, but there is no flood of reliable evidence in this particular case, it seems.

Ice age, iirc last ice age ended just under ten thousand years ago, there is a lot of unusual sites that have been dissevered underwater and not properly investigated and computer models of the last ice age have shown these locations as above the water table before the meltdown.

Graham Hancock on the other hand although an interesting read is a bit of a crackpot and goes far to far.

However I wish the archaeology community would take the ice age meltdown seriously and actually do some proper underwater archaeology. It's expensive and seems a total lack of interest in case they have to read the books. Just be nice to get a proper awnser one way or the other.

eddie_slovik · 3 May 2011 at 23:32

Watched a Discovery Channel prog on this and, apparently, after the last ice age mean sea levels rose approx 100 meters :eek:

Leaving an awful lot of what was coast line underwater. As many civilisations sprang up by the sea this would mean that theres plenty down there to discover.