Lost city found off Mumbai:

[jeffreyab]

There are several reports that a lost city has been found on the ocean floor off Mumbai. Current theory has it being submerges at the end of the last ice age around 9,000 years ago, 2,000 years before the Sphinx was created.

Links:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1768109.stm

http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/khambat/khambat01.htm

http://www.archaeologyonline.net/artifacts/lost-city.html

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EE02Df02.html

Looks like the original discovery was back in 2002.

The current dating would not only make it the world's oldest city but it predates the previous earliest city by the same amount of time that it predated us.

However the site is very difficult to work on and most of the pronouncments made in the BBC article are by Graham Hancock a sort of Anglo-Indian Erich von Daniken.

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

Comments

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[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

First a new mouse, and now a new city.

This is a good day.

B

[darthparadox.livejournal.com]

Given Hancock's (for some reason, I typed "Hackcock's" there at first) history, this is an eminently reasonable question: have his statements been backed up by any scientists that don't have a precursor civilization agenda?

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

The second and fourth links do not refer to him at all.

[darthparadox.livejournal.com]

I stopped reading about halfway through the second link because of how absurdly propagandistic it sounded.

The fourth one does refer to him briefly as one of the people pushing for the initial expedition, but on the other hand cites carbon-testing from two different institutions resulting in an average date of 6500 BC.

With a little more digging, I also found a New Scientist article from the original 2002 find.

So, yeah. That answers my question.

[mindme.livejournal.com]

I've encountered this hare krisnha guy in Seoul who argues vigorously against evolution. His problem is it doesn't disprove a Christian "young earth" hypothesis but it disproves a Vedic "trillion year old earth" hypothesis. Since his religious text claims human civilization has been around for a billion years or so, evolution has to be wrong. He spends considerable time trying to argue chips in shale rock are 500 million year old footprints etc. I'm sure this is going to soon work into his thesis.