Lost Atlantis of India ?
Alleged ruins of an ancient civilization under the Gulf of Khambhat, India
The alleged discovery of vast underwater ruins in the Gulf of Khambhat in the north-west of India in 2000 has prompted speculation about an “Indian Atlantis”. Leaving aside the question of whether these self-contained civilizations really existed -implicitly on islands or isolated areas, it’s clear that many people *want* to believe that they existed.
Graham Hancock’s book Underworld sets out a basic thesis, unaccepted of course by mainstream scholars. There once was “a lost civilization destroyed in the cataclysmic global floods that brought the last Ice Age to an end,” and the survivors passed on their knowledge to the newer ancient civilizations with which we are more familiar. The search for an “Indian Atlantis” is the basis for this book, which is structured around Hancock’s exploration of underwater sites near India, Japan, Taiwan and China, and in the Arabian and Mediterranean Seas.
Having appeared to have lost these wonderful mythical islands in India – populations may have started turning west and north – and in time migrating in those directions; to find similarly blessed isles on the other side of the world – off the western coast of Europe.
