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Graham Hancock, on Ancient Mysteries and Modern Innovations, describes two underwater sites in India. The title mentions Dwarka, but he does not say that name in these remarks. He says a pollution survey in the Gulf of Cambay saw geometric forms about 120 feet (36 meters) down on sonar. Two layouts beside old riverbeds, each miles long, together match Manhattan in size. The team was mocked until a grab raised pottery, jewelry, and fossil bone, Carbon tests on cut wood gave about 9500 years, or 7500 BC, older than any city on the usual list and far larger than Jericho or Catalhoyuk, when farming is supposed to be new. He points to lands drowned as ice age seas rose. Sea level studies, he says, put the gulf under water near 7700 years ago, so the carbon date can sit just before the flood. Off Tamil Nadu a horseshoe structure in deeper water, dived in the 1990s, is a second site he will not join to younger shore ruins. A quake near Pondicherry lets him link fast ice melt with earthquakes.
Key points
- Hancock says a pollution survey in the Gulf of Cambay found two geometric cities about 120 feet (36 meters) down.
- He reports more than two thousand raised objects and a wood date near 9500 years ago.
- That scale, he argues, is vastly larger than Jericho or Catalhoyuk and implies farming earlier than textbooks allow.
- Sea level studies are his check on the date, placing submergence a little later than the carbon result.
- A horseshoe structure off Tamil Nadu, dived in the 1990s, is his second and separate underwater site.
- He adds that meltwater periods line up with stronger earthquakes, after a note on a Pondicherry quake.
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National Institute of Ocean Technology went public with its findings in May last year nobody took them seriously
Graham Hancock, Hancock on the Gulf of Cambay ruins
He says the Cambay survey was laughed off when the institute first announced it. Watch at 2:38
10 million square miles of land that was submerged by rising sea levels
Graham Hancock, Hancock on the Gulf of Cambay ruins
He points to land lost at the end of the ice age as the place where the missing cities should be. Watch at 6:50
I've seen a lot more evidence on this than has so far been made public
Graham Hancock, Hancock on the Gulf of Cambay ruins
He claims the published record is only part of what he has been shown. Watch at 11:45
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