Indian Ocean Atlantis?

[arisbe]

This just in from vajranatha:

"We have been able to locate a section of the city at a depth of 7 m and will soon start operations to recover objects that will help ascertain its past," said Rear Admiral K.R. Srinivasan, chief hydrographer to the Indian government.

English marine archaeologist Graham Hancock, who conducted an underwater exploration in the area in 2001, believes that the Poompuhar site could be older than Sumeria in Mesopotamia, where modern civilisation is believed to have originated nearly 5,000 years ago.

Comments

[rengal.livejournal.com]

Oooo, intriguing.
Besides the article that is itself intersting, I found its accompnaying pop-up add also interesting: an online matching service with the header "Marriage by Choice".

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

Ever see the matrimonial ads in an Indian paper, even one published here?

[rengal.livejournal.com]

No -- but we do have an Indian paper in town; I'll pick one up and check it out.

[kebechet.livejournal.com]

Off-topic...

Who is the author of that beautiful poem on your LJ bio?

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

It is from Chesterton's Ballad of the White Horse, where Alfred goes looking for warriors to fight the Danes, and one of them is Irish, and that is the way he is described.

[caitlin2.livejournal.com]

I extremely doubt, that a site in South India is older than Sumer, if it is indeed a city. It took a wile for crops to be introduced there. Without crops, how can the population of a city be supported?

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

I think Mr. Hancock may be rather inclined to overestimate the antiquity of the thing, but let's see what turns up.

[caitlin2.livejournal.com]

I have found this about early food production in India.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?artid=23873

You may also be interested in this.

http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/research/possehl/ahar-banas.shtml