BTW I strongly believe nuclear weapons was the cause of downfall
for our previous human civilisations. Yes, human civilisations date
back much further than we think... and this is in accord with the
Buddhist scriptures.
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Ancient City Found In India Irradiated
By Nuclear Blast 8,000 Years Ago
This file from Bryant Stavely was excerpted from the World Island
Review, January 1992.
Radiation still so intense, the area is highly dangerous. A heavy
layer of radioactive ash in Rajasthan, India, covers a three-square
mile area, ten miles west of Jodhpur. Scientists are investigating
the site, where a housing development was being built.
For some time it has been established that there is a very high
rate of birth defects and cancer in the area under construction.
The levels of radiation there have registered so high on
investigators' gauges that the Indian government has now cordoned
off the region. Scientists have unearthed an ancient city where
evidence shows an atomic blast dating back thousands of years, from
8,000 to 12,000 years, destroyed most of the buildings and probably
a half-million people. One researcher estimates that the nuclear
bomb used was about the size of the ones dropped on Japan in
1945.
The Mahabharata clearly describes a catastrophic blast that rocked
the continent. "A single projectile charged with all the power in
the Universe...An incandescent column of smoke and flame as bright
as 10,000 suns, rose in all its splendor...it was an unknown
weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which
reduced to ashes an entire race.
"The corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable. Their hair and
nails fell out, pottery broke without any apparent cause, and the
birds turned white. After a few hours, all foodstuffs were
infected. To escape from this fire, the soldiers threw themselves
into the river."
Historian Kisari Mohan Ganguli says that Indian sacred writings are
full of such descriptions, which sound like an atomic blast as
experienced in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He says references mention
fighting sky chariots and final weapons. An ancient battle is
described in the Drona Parva, a section of the Mahabharata. "The
passage tells of combat where explosions of final weapons decimate
entire armies, causing crowds of warriors with steeds and elephants
and weapons to be carried away as if they were dry leaves of
trees," says Ganguli.
"Instead of mushroom clouds, the writer describes a perpendicular
explosion with its billowing smoke clouds as consecutive openings
of giant parasols. There are comments about the contamination of
food and people's hair falling out."
Archeologist Francis Taylor says that etchings in some nearby
temples he has managed to translate suggest that they prayed to be
spared from the great light that was coming to lay ruin to the
city. "It's so mid-boggling to imagine that some civilization had
nuclear technology before we did. The radioactive ash adds
credibility to the ancient Indian records that describe atomic
warfare."
Construction has halted while the five member team conducts the
investigation. The foreman of the project is Lee Hundley, who
pioneered the investigation after the high level of radiation was
discovered.
...
The great ancient Indian epic, the Mahabharata, contains numerous
legends about the powerful force of a mysterious weapon
The archaeological expedition, which carried out excavations near
the Indian settlement of Mohenjo-Daro in the beginning of the
1900s, uncovered the ruins of a big ancient town. The town belonged
to one of the most developed civilizations in the world. The
ancient civilization existed for two or three thousand years.
However, scientists were a lot more interested in the death of the
town, rather than in its prosperity.
Researchers tried to explain the reason of the town's destruction
with various theories. However, scientists did not find any
indications of a monstrous flood, skeletons were not numerous,
there were no fragments of weapons, or anything else that could
testify either to a natural disaster or a war. Archaeologists were
perplexed: according to their analysis the catastrophe in the town
had occurred very unexpectedly and it did hot last long.
Scientists Davneport and Vincenti put forward an amazing theory.
They stated the ancient town had been ruined with a nuclear blast.
They found big stratums of clay and green glass. Apparently,
archaeologists supposed, high temperature melted clay and sand and
they hardened immediately afterwards. Similar stratums of green
glass can also found in Nevada deserts after every nuclear
explosion.
A hundred years have passed since the excavations in Mohenjo-Daro.
The modern analysis showed, the fragments of the ancient town had
been melted with extremely high temperature - not less than 1,500
degrees centigrade. Researchers also found the strictly outlined
epicenter, where all houses were leveled. Destructions lessened
towards the outskirts. Dozens of skeletons were found in the area
of Mohenjo-Daro - their radioactivity exceeded the norm almost 50
times.
The great ancient Indian epic, the Mahabharata, contains numerous
legends about the powerful force of a mysterious weapon. One of the
chapters tells of a shell, which sparkled like fire, but had no
smoke. "When the shell hit the ground, the darkness covered the
sky, twisters and storms leveled the towns. A horrible blast burnt
thousands of animals and people to ashes. Peasants, townspeople and
warriors dived in the river to wash away the poisonous
dust."
