From space, sattelite images clearly show a bridge connecting Ceylon and India. But on land and sea, no such bridge now exists! | Here is another image [also from space] that shows this non-existant bridge, that has all the hallmarks of man-made construction! |
This bridge, not really again visible until the current "Space Age", is yet more evidence that we are not alone in the Universe, and that our history books and the theory of Evolution need to be re-written! |
The land bridge named as Adam's Bridge is a narrow ridge of sand and rocks, mostly dry, which connects Mannar Island (Sri Lanka) with Pamban Island (India) about 18 ½ miles West-North-Westward. At high tide it is covered by c.4 ft (1.2 m) of water. ...The status of the bridge is still a mystery as the legends trace the bridge to have more than a million years of existence and related to the epic Ramayana. ....The Srilankan Archeology Department also confirms the possible duration of the bridge's existence to be around one to two million years. ............However the natural or man-made status of the bridge is unknown. S.U.Deraniyagala, the Director-General of Archaeology, Sri Lanka and the author of "Early Man and the Rise of Civilisation in Sri Lanka: the Archaeological Evidence" says that "the Himalayan foothills of the Indian sub-continent have yielded evidence for humans having lived there around two million years ago. ....Although the earliest known dates for hominids in peninsular India are ca. 600,000 years before the present (BP), it is very likely that future research will indicate an age comparable to that of the Himalayan foothills, since there do not appear to have been any physical barriers to prevent humans from being present in southern India contemporaneously with their occurrence in the northern part of the sub-continent. .....Meanwhile, it is apparent that Sri Lanka was, more often than not, linked to southern India by a land bridge during this period. ....It is estimated that the sea level would have dropped sufficiently for creating such a connection on at least 17 occasions within the last 700,000 years. ........This phenomenon would have been caused by the rise and fall of the sea level due to cold/warm fluctuations in the global climate. ......The last separation from India would have occurred at about 7,000 BP. .......It is therefore possible that humans were present in Sri Lanka from at least as early as one million years ago. " .......According to the legend of Ramayana, the land bridge was constructed by large numbers of monkey like beings under the supervision of Rama, who according to Hindus is a personalized almighty incarnation.. .... The purpose of the construction was to reach Srilanka (across the sea) from the Indian mainland to rescue Rama's wife from the demon king Ravana.... .... Ramayana, according to the Hindu time calendar, is supposed to have taken place in Tredha Yuga (The ancient scriptures in Hinduism discuss about events in terms of Yugas (Time phases of evolution) numerically four namely Sathya (17,28,000 years), Tredha (12,96,000 years), Dwapara (8,64,000 years) and Kali (4,32,000 years)). .......The current phase according to the calendar is Kali, out of which 5000 years are supposed to have passed by. This means that Ramayana, to have relevance with the bridge, should have taken place between 8,69,000 to 21,65,000 years back (between the time period 0.869 - 2.165 million years)." We are students of Indian Institute of Technology Madras interested in analyzing issues of archeological relevance. We have just entered this area and hope you (the reader), if interested, can help us serve this purpose. S.Balasubramaniyan * (Department of Chemical Engineering) Ajay Anand (Department of Mechanical Engineering) Ullash Kumar (Department of Physics) Rashmi Sinha (Consultant - Human Computer Interaction, Oakland, California U.S.A) for her support in the compilation of the article. * To whom queries concerning the article should be addressed (bala341@yahoo.com) |
By Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson |