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12/26/2005
12:20:33 pm EST
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Tsunami uncovers archaeological mystery
Author: Anna Maria Nicholson Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Title: Tsunami uncovers archaeological mystery
PHILIP WILLIAMS: The destructive capacity of last year's tsunami wiped life from Earth in numbers that defy comprehension. Each one gone dramatically altering other lives - friends and families in a chain wrapped countless times around the world. Towns and villages and possessions obliterated. In many parts, the very presence of human beings simply erased, as if they were never there. The tsunamis took a great deal away, but in one tiny corner, they actually gave something back. And it has archaeologists and historians arguing about precisely what it is. It is evidence of a long-lost ancient community? Is there a mystical temple covered by time, or perhaps even an entire city buried beneath the sand and the sea around Mahabalipuram in southern India.
Anne Maria Nicholson travelled to India to piece together a picture from the fleeting glimpses snatched between the tsunamis and the more structured exploration now under way.
ANNE MARIA NICHOLSON: The sea's running high off Mahabalipuram on the Bay of Bengal. 75-year-old Peti Chetia and his grandson Sekdavail are out looking for their daily catch aboard shiny new boats donated by sympathetic Europeans. The ocean is their life, but a year ago it took nearly everything they had. But as stricken communities like this counted their losses and began a massive clean-up, others were diverted by an intriguing revelation. The ocean that had been so destructive offered a sneak peep into the past. Beneath the waves just offshore was evidence of submerged temples, perhaps even a city belonging to a lost civilisation.
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| Television News | Dec 26th. at 10:21:27 pm EST
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Ahr-Ohn (Bridgeport, Connecticut) - Email Me
This was an article from a TV News Story, rendered as Transcript to save Bandwidth. If you'd like to see the pictures, try subscribing to your local Australian ABC Affiliate.
Maha Bali Pura sounds like it was being promoted as the Great Polinesian Boro, so a few ruins are to be expected.
Unfortunately, Wales has had the same problem, if you care to search for Gwyddno or Ys, the Sea has claimed this city. A Sonar Imaging Survey might be in order, for this shore, but I expect Treasure Hunters will pick it clean, as with Pompei.
Fortunately, Tsunamis have ravaged this shore previously, and the oral traditions of the Wild Animals had preserved their lives. Reminiscent of what happened to those Africans, who accepted the assurances of Moslem Missionaries, that it was perfectly safe to build near those really deep lakes...
Arawn
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