Mamallapuram

Mamallapuram (also known as Mahabalipuram) is a town in Chengalpattu district in the southeastern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, best known for the UNESCO World Heritage Site of 7th- and 8th-century Hindu Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram. It is one of the famous tourist sites in India. The ancient name of the place is Thirukadalmallai. It is a part of Chennai Metropolitan Area. It is a satellite town of Chennai.

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• "We can no longer think of the so-called Fertile Crescent of Sumeria as the cradle of civilization”, says Hancock. “What seems more likely from the large body of evidence I have compiled is that there were a number of cities built before this time which were submerged by rising sea levels at the end of the last ice age. Mahabalipuram, I suspect, is one of these.” The strongest evidence supporting his theory comes from the Department of Geological Sciences at Durham University in the UK where geo-physicist Dr Glenn Milne has built up a sophisticated computer data base that prints out the images of shorelines from any time in history. After Hancock sent him his data from Mahabalipuram, Hancock told him the site as at least 6,000 years old. “Assuming there was no tectonic movement at the site, and it looks like there wasn’t, then it appears that the area was flooded by a rise in sea levels about 6,000 years ago”, Milne says. “The computer programme is accurate to within 1,000 years either side of the allotted date.” Hancock says Milne’s reaction has vindicated him. “It proved that the methods I was using, the combination of deciphering ancient myths and new technology, actually worked”, he argues. “Of course I still keeping an open mind, but it does suggest I am on the right track after all. Its mainstream archaeology and science that are blinkered.”
  • G. Hancock. (source: Deccan Herald August 16' 02). [1]