Re: [tied] Submerged city Poompukaar may be older than Mesopotamia:

04-12-03 00:47, S.Kalyanaraman wrote:

> 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.
>
> The 2001 expedition was funded by Channel Four of Britain and
> Learning Channel of the US in association with the National Institute
> of Oceanography (NIO), Goa.
>
> It led Hancock to surmise that the city could have been submerged by
> a tidal wave as high as 400 ft somewhere between 17,000 and 7,000
> years ago.

Graham Hancock is a notorious pseudoscientist. His beliefs and surmises
are not worth the paper they are printed on, or the bandwidth they take up.

Piotr