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Article: The lost city of Cambay. ((Frontline).(India)
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- November 1, 2002
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AN INNOCUOUS PIECE OF WOOD and a slew of other artefacts might just be set to push back Indian antiquity to 7500Bc, if material picked up from the seabed of the Gulf of Cambay gets scientific verification. The findings follow the accidental unearthing of what may be a 40-metre deep ancient underwater settlement off the Western Coast of India, discovered by the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) during a routine assessment of water pollution levels.
Acoustic imaging has revealed well-defined geometric formations, spread irregularly across a nine-kilometer stretch, resembling known characteristics of the Harappan civilisation of 2500 BC, up till now, the ...