Theos-Talk Archives (October 2002 Message tt00073)

It's a natural formation that has been investigated and documented fairly 
extensively.

--- In theos-talk@y..., "Morten Nymann Olesen" <global-
theosophy@a...> wrote:
> Hi all of you,
> 
> I post this just to let you know, I got just about the following today 
from a friend:
> 
> NASA Images Find 1,750,000
> Year Old Man-Made Bridge
> The Hindustan Times
> 10-10-2
> 
> WASHINGTON (PTI) -- The NASA Shuttle has imaged a
> mysterious ancient bridge
> between India and Sri Lanka, as mentioned in the
> Ramayana. The evidence, say
> experts matter-of-factly, is in the Digital Image
> Collection. The recently
> discovered bridge, currently named as Adam's Bridge
> and made of a chain of
> shoals, 30 km long, in the Palk Straits between
> India and Sri Lanka, reveals
> a mystery behind it. The bridge's unique curvature
> and composition by age
> reveals that it is man-made. Legend as well as
> Archeological studies reveal
> that the first signs of human inhabitants in Sri
> Lanka date back to the
> primitive age, about 1,750,000 years ago and the
> bridge's age is also almost
> equivalent.
> 
> 
> [Unable to display image] 
> 
> 
> http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_81164,0003.htm
> 
> Courtesy NASA Digital Image Collection
> Space images taken by NASA reveal a mysterious
> ancient bridge in the Palk
> Strait between India and Sri Lanka. The recently
> discovered bridge currently
> named as Adam&laqno;s Bridge is made of chain of
> shoals, c.18 mi (30 km)
> long. The bridge&laqno;s unique curvature and
> composition by age reveals 
> that it is man made. The legends as well as Archeological
> studies reveal that the
> first signs of human inhabitants in Sri Lanka date
> back to the a primitive
> age, about 1,750,000 years ago and the
> bridge&laqno;s age is also almost
> equivalent. This information is a crucial aspect for
> an insight into the
> mysterious legend called Ramayana, which was
> supposed to have taken place in
> tredha yuga (more than 1,700,000 years ago). In this
> epic, there is a
> mentioning about a bridge, which was built between
> Rameshwaram (India) and
> Srilankan coast under the supervision of a dynamic
> and invincible figure
> called Rama who is supposed to be the incarnation of
> the supreme. This
> information may not be of much importance to the
> archeologists who are
> interested in exploring the origins of man, but it
> is sure to open the
> spiritual gates of the people of the world to have
> come to know an ancient
> history linked to the Indian mythology.
> 
> http://www.rense.com/general30/nasa.htm 
> 
> 
> 
> from
> M. Sufilight with telekinetic behavoirs and the like...
> 
> 
> 
> 
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