Lost city 'could rewrite history'

[slow_dazzle]

Article on the BBC web site

Graham Hancock is quoted in the article:

"The [oceanographers] found that they were dealing with two large blocks of apparently man made structures.

"Cities on this scale are not known in the archaeological record until roughly 4,500 years ago when the first big cities begin to appear in Mesopotamia.

"Nothing else on the scale of the underwater cities of Cambay is known. The first cities of the historical period are as far away from these cities as we are today from the pyramids of Egypt," he said.

[professorpan]

Fascinating. At some point one of these underwater sites is going to break through into mainstream and scientific consciousness. Talk about a paradigm change...

[Sepka]

Fascinating. At some point one of these underwater sites is going to break through into mainstream and scientific consciousness. Talk about a paradigm change...

I'm confident that a city two by five miles in size, whose foundations are still there after 9000 years wasn't one of humanity's first experiments in city-building.

And what will Hugh Manatee make of this news, in the light of the release of the movie '10,000 BC'?

[Searcher08]

You know that article is over six years old?

I remember reading years ago a report that there were sections of the Harrappa ruins which appeared to be vitrified (the rock had been fused) and there were very high levels of radioactivity in the bodies / remains discovered.

http://www.philipcoppens.com/bestevidence.html

[Nordic]

While a tantalizing story, this has sadly been debunked:

http://www.intersurf.com/~chalcedony/geofact.html

[Stephen Morgan]

Fascinating. At some point one of these underwater sites is going to break through into mainstream and scientific consciousness. Talk about a paradigm change...

If we're taking bets I predict it'll be New York.

searcher08: Harrappa ruins which appeared to be vitrified (the rock had been fused)

Harrappan ruins are made of brick, not rock.