Drowned Indian city could be world's oldest?

Question

Hindu scriptures have always claimed that its origins can not be dated.

Evidence of an ancient "lost river civilisation" has been uncovered off the west coast of India, the country's minister for science and technology has announced. Local archaeologists claim the find could push back currently accepted dates of the emergence of the world's first cities.

If confirmed, the find would also push back the date of India's earliest known civilisation by 5000 years. The Harappan civilisation has been dated to about 2500 BC. The newly identified site "looks like a Harappan-type civilisation but dating way back to 7500 BC," said minister Murli Manohar Joshi.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn1808
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1763950.stm

If confirmed will Western historians re-write their history books?

Answer 1

Historians definitely correct their books all the time as so those in other fields. For example till recently people believed in a flat earth and that photosynthesis used 6 carbon atoms and not 12 as thought today or that Columbus "Discovered America" as if the inhabitants were lost and waiting for their saviour to find them.

For your Information the Harappan or Indus valley civilization was the world's first urban civilization and had planned cities where industries were located at the outskirts and residential areas in city centre along with places of worship. They had an advanced state of writing and records (seals). So its quite obvious that to reach that level they must have had an earlier civilization to evolve to this advanced stage.

It is also a fact that a person's birthday can be found from his horoscope. Rama's horoscope along with constellation and moon phases described in the Ramayana have been found to date his Birthday to around 7500B.C.

The city mentioned in the article Dwaraka also finds mention in several books including the Bhagawat Purana.

All this shows that insufficient research has been done and more work has to be done with an open mind and more money invested into investigating one of the most ancient of civilizations and certainly the most spiritual of all civilizations.

Answer 2

The Hindu Vedas have talked consistantly of the Saraswati River.
This has been tracked down even by the NASA surveys. It is a dry riverbed, some 25 km wide, all the way from the Himalayas.
It dates to the last Ice Age.
The National Institute of Ocean Technology needs to do more work to prove their case to the world.

If confirmed Western historians will have to re-write their history books.

Answer 3

Atlantis did exist, but is unclear where exactly the island was. Many people think it was in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, but recent evidence has come up that it was actually in the Mediterranean Sea and was posibly destroyed by a huge volcanic eruption like Pompey. The reason this can't be proven is because there are too many laws preventing any form of excavation in the waters hence no solid evidence. Remember, people thought that the city of Troy never existed either and that was proven incorrect.

Answer 4

Our folklore about our gory past is more reliable than the history books. The latter were written by the western historians or those influenced by them. The western historians could not come to accept the idea of India being one of the ancient civilizations. One should not be satisfied with these findings. More researches are required to be done. It should be relentless ..a hot pursuit after truth.

Answer 5

If. As far as I know the culture your talking about was the same culture that became the Sumerians.
I think we are talking about an earlier culture still, that around 8000 bc divided one part headed for the fertile crescent and the other towards India, Sumerian and the early Indien God myths are indentical.
I happen to go with that just before the last ice age there was almost a uniform human culture.
That all fell apart gradually after the ice age.
Finally things got so bad that connected human culture fell completely apart and the survivers broke into 2 main camps that finally settled in the fertile crescent and India.
Well it's my theory......

Answer 6

When the ages of the patriarchs of the Bible [ Genesis ch. 5] is recorded as a chart, and tied in with the geniology of Jesus at Matthew ch. 1 and Luke ch. 3, the age of man on the earth since Adam and Eve works out to about 6-8,000 years. There
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When the age of the Patriarchs in Genesis ch. 5 is charted, and then tied in to the Geneology of Jesus at Matthew ch. 1 and Luke ch.3, the age of mans history on the earth works out to about 8,000 years,
That is from Adam and Eve to Jesus' time. We can add two more thousand years.
It nearly matches the archaeologists timeframe.

Answer 7

If confirmed, hopefully history will be corrected. History must be as accurate as possible. the truth must never be what we want it to be.

Answer 8

i think you are referring to Lemuria continent and the river Pahruli. if research is sucessfull lot of things will have to be re written.

Answer 9

would be interesting developments as the more sophisticated modern technology becomes the more one discovers we really have little understanding of the accomplishments of our ancestors.

Answer 10

yes they will - is that your only question?