{"id":132468,"date":"2023-10-22T10:39:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T10:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/?p=132468"},"modified":"2023-10-22T10:39:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T10:39:22","slug":"archaeologists-taken-aback-by-indias-ancient-city-dubbed-forgotten-atlantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/lifestyle\/archaeologists-taken-aback-by-indias-ancient-city-dubbed-forgotten-atlantis\/","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists taken aback by Indias ancient city dubbed forgotten Atlantis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Atlantis is an island mentioned in the works of the Greek philosopher Plato some 1,600 years ago.<\/p>\n

He described it as a naval empire that ruled all the Western parts of the known world.<\/p>\n

It was, of course, a fictional entity, but that hasn’t stopped many in history from searching for a real-life lost Atlantis.<\/p>\n

This includes the ancient city of Dwarka, in northwest India, one of four sacred Hindu pilgrimage sites called the Chardham.<\/p>\n

Here, archaeologists believe that hidden deep beneath waters where the Gomti River and Arabian Sea meet lies a lost city \u2014 India’s very own Atlantis.<\/p>\n

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Dwarka is mentioned as the place of Krishna’s kingdom in the epic Mahabharata. The book says that after he lived there for more than 100 years, the old settlement was swallowed up by the sea.<\/p>\n

In the second half of the last century, archaeologists made attempts to find material evidence of the city in order to prove its existence. The first excavations were carried out in the 1960s by the Deccan College and turned up few pieces of evidence.<\/p>\n

Then, in 1979, the Archaeological Survey of India conducted another excavator in which researchers found some fragments of pottery which they believed hailed from the second millennium BC.<\/p>\n

Further excavations and inspections have revealed a variety of archaeological remains in Dwarka, including painted polychrome, microns, and a total of more than 500 antiquities recovered.<\/p>\n

It firmly establishes the cultural sequence of the area for almost 2,000 years and hints that something was present long before the town’s current set-up.<\/p>\n

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