A fragment of Lemuria that has survived to this day
Of all the hypothetical huge sunken lands in the distant past of the Earth (Atlantis, Mu, Pacifida, etc.), oddly enough, it is Lemuria - a large land that once stretched into the Indian Ocean - is the most indisputable and confirmed by the maximum amount of evidence, and of the most varied character, arrived in time from different fields of science (and not just myths and folklore). Geologists today are 100% sure of the existence of a land bridge that once connected Madagascar, Indonesia, Seychelles and other lands that are now remote from each other. Biologists speak about the same, relying on the latest analyzes of flora and fauna, migration of certain animal species. Fresh archaeological, genetic evidence of Lemuria also arrived …
But let's talk about everything in order.
Back in 1860, while studying fossil plants in the ancient rocks of Africa and India, geologist William Blandford discovered a surprising similarity between fossil finds and the structure of geological layers. This is possible only if the excavation sites are located in the same region. But in this case, land areas were separated by thousands of kilometers of water space. Long reflections led the scientist to the conclusion about the existence of an ancient continent on the site of the Indian Ocean.
The closeness to Africa is not forgotten, most of the plants and animals living in Madagascar turned out to be endemic, and their number is so great that the island can be considered part of some ancient continent. Its indigenous inhabitants do not belong to the Negroid race, but much closer to the inhabitants of Indonesia. This was confirmed by geneticists, but we will talk about this further.
The mention of a land with a developed civilization that disappeared in the Indian Ocean is found in the mythology of different peoples. Even the ancient Egyptians mentioned a country located in the waters of Ouj-Ur (as they called both the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean), which "disappeared in the waves."
According to Dravidian myths, Lemuria was located south of Hindustan. From there (from Lemuria) the ancient Indian god Shiva comes from. Myths say that an advanced civilization on Lemuria lasted 4400 years and died during the Flood. The Lemurians who escaped death settled in nearby lands or on the remnants of the continent remaining above the water and brought knowledge to India. Small islands of the Indian Ocean remained from Lemuria. Some researchers also rank the western islands of Indonesia as its remains.
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One of the ancient Tamil epics often mentions the vast land of Kumari Nadu, which stretched far into the Indian Ocean from the shores of present-day India. But the ancestral home of the Tamils "was destroyed and swallowed up by the sea" …
Perhaps this is what the landscapes of Lemuria looked like?
Many people remember the legendary confrontation between Rama and Ravana, indicated in the ancient Indian epics. One of the ancient texts of Sri Lanka says: "In time immemorial, the citadel of Ravan (the ruler of Sri Lanka, the rival of Rama) consisted of 25 palaces and 400 thousand inhabitants, subsequently absorbed by the ocean." The sunken land, as the text says, was located between the southwestern coast of India and the island of Manar off Sri Lanka …
Another most popular Indian epic is Mahabharata, dating back to the 5th millennium BC. e., places his hero Rama on a high mountain, from where he looks over the horizon on land, in the place of which the waters of the Indian Ocean are now splashing.
The Malgash (the indigenous people of the island of Madagascar) also retained the richest traditions of oral poetry with stories about the history of the island. And now, according to local myths, Madagascar used to stretch far to the east, but most of it was destroyed by the "great flood".
From myths to facts. As you know, the granite massifs of East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and Hindustan find their continuation within the bottom of the Indian Ocean.
The first material evidence of the former existence of land on the site of the Indian Ocean was obtained by the Swedish research ship Albatross in 1947. Several hundred miles off the southeastern coast of Sri Lanka, he discovered a vast underwater plateau, which is solidified volcanic lava. During the eruption of a volcano (or volcanoes), lava filled the valleys that had not yet sunk. The official dating also suggested the approximate dates of the disaster: 11-12 thousand years ago. But this quite accurately correlates us precisely with the time of the Great Flood (10478 BC), which occurred as a result of the fall of a giant asteroid in the region of the Philippine Sea! And a chain of disasters around the globe, tremendous changes in climate and living conditions …
In 1999, a vessel doing research in the Indian Ocean returned with interesting news. Scientists have found circumstantial evidence that a continent three times the size of modern Australia once sank there. Among the specimens found in the sedimentary rock were pollen and pieces of wood.
And at the end of February 2013, a group of volcanologists, geologists and oceanologists found the remains of a huge lithospheric plate under the islands of Mauritius, Reunion and Rodriguez. The anomaly is distinct: the thickness of the earth's crust here is more than 25 km, while in the oceans this value usually does not exceed 12 km!
Or did Lemuria look like this?
The existence of a once land bridge between Madagascar and India was also confirmed by a detailed DNA analysis of lizards of the Draconinae subfamily inhabiting India and southeastern regions of Asia. But even more interesting evidence concerns people! Last week, an international team of scientists discovered the first archaeological evidence of the settlement of the island of Madagascar by immigrants from Southeast Asia.
The island of Madagascar is located 480 kilometers from the mainland of Africa. Meanwhile, its native people speak Malagasy, which belongs to the Austronesian language family. The latter are common in the territories of Southeast Asia and Oceania, which are thousands of kilometers away from Madagascar.
This suggests that in ancient times the island was inhabited by speakers of the Austronesian languages from Asia. In their study, scientists for the first time received archaeological confirmation of the linguistic hypothesis of the origin of the Malagasy people - the indigenous inhabitants of Madagascar.
Scientists presented an analysis of 2,443 plant remains of rice, mung bean and cotton crops found at 18 ancient sites in Madagascar and the Comoros. Samples date back to VIII-X centuries AD. The studied crops differ from those of the coastal areas of Africa and other islands, where baobab, sorghum and millet are mainly used.
Archaeologists believe that the ancient people who colonized Madagascar and the Comoros brought with them agricultural crops characteristic of Southeast Asia. Despite the fact that the Malagasy people also used traditional cultures for the island, the archaeological layers discovered indicate the Asian origin of the indigenous people of Madagascar.
Thus, Lemuria was the bridge that connected Africa, Southeast Asia and Australia before the Great Flood and allowed this contact to take place.
In conclusion, you can watch a video telling about the fate of Lemuria:
