Everyone knows that in India there are countless ancient temples, palaces and their ruins. Some have come down to us in a more or less preserved form and, perhaps, are not so ancient. Others we see only as the remains of buildings, columns, carved arches. Almost everyone is blamed on the conquerors. Yes, probably. But there are facts, photographs from excavations of the late 19th century, early 20th century, where it is clearly seen that the foundations and foundations of Indian ancient buildings are at a depth of several meters.
Examples include the excavations of Pataliputra, the capital of the empire of King Ashoka. Official date: 3rd c. BC.
The city was wooden. In the photographs we see the remains of walls and pavements made of wood. But the depth at which they all found it is amazing. Again archaeologists will say that these are all cultural layers. Did they find many artifacts, finds in these cultural layers? The finds began only at the level where the fragments of the columns from the ruler's palace lay. Above are the layers of oblivion. Why they do not contain any values - archaeologists do not specify. But cultural layers have formed. By themselves, clay dust with stones blew.
During excavations and now (second slide).
Promotional video:
Column dug out earlier and put on display (second slide). The third slide is a diagram showing the location of the bases of the palace columns. But back to the wooden buildings. Rather, to the remains of wooden structures discovered by archaeologists:
Local residents worked on the excavations, and they had no idea why all this was found at such a depth. However, now ordinary archaeologists, graduate students, and students in practice do not ask such questions either. And if they do, they are satisfied with the answers from their blinkered leaders. No one, then or now, will express versions that are inconvenient for historians. There were no catastrophes in historical time. Their answer: there were wars and all buildings were destroyed and buried by time.
Estimate the depth. A person with a height of about 1.7 stands at the surface of the present ground level. The depth of the foundation of the ancient buildings is about six meters. Basements? Around underground temples or what else can historians suggest?
The Wooden City is 3 c. BC. Those. it is more than 2 thousand years old. And the tree did not rot in the wet soil of the Indian climate. This age, even for stone rocks, is very decent. For such a period, any marble statue will turn into a "remnant". And here is a tree. There is no oxygen underground - that's why it didn't rot? But there is always bacteria and water there in the rainy season. Rotting processes take place all year round. I believe that such structures are no more than 500 years old.
What happened? Ancient Patna, formerly known as Pataliputra, is located on the right bank of the Ganges. It can be assumed that during the catastrophic flood and flood, the city was washed away and covered with a layer of clay and stones. But this is not in history. And if this event happened, then what caused such a cataclysm? Global showers? Or were the showers themselves made of clay (from volcanic ash)?
Another version is that a huge volume of water was released in the mountains. The mechanism and video of the process is shown in this article.
Old drawing of Patna. The coast is relatively high. I can’t imagine what kind of flood there should be to bring in meters of clay the territory removed from the Ganges River for kilometers.
Floods in the Ganges Valley do happen, of course. Example of August 2016 in the area of Patna:
I do not exclude that in the past there were more catastrophic floods (for reasons unknown to us), which destroyed cities to the ground and brought them in layers of clay.
A similar example, but with a younger structure in India: the excavation of the Chattar Mansil Palace in Lucknow (on the Gomti River).
A gondola was nailed to the walls and covered with a layer of soil. And the building was also skidded with clay to form underground floors. But there are no records about this, because for Indians to find underground floors there was a surprise. Here is a translation from the news (second and third slides):
Unknown pages of recent history exist in all corners of the planet. But historians stubbornly ignore these facts.
Author: sibved