Temples: history, architecture and distribution

[Sunder]

Here is something interesting. Archeological evidence for what we already knew. Neither Dravidian nor Aryan theories holds water. They are all underwater now.
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<b>Lost city 'could rewrite history'</b>

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1768109.stm

Marine scientists say archaeological remains discovered 36 metres (120 feet) underwater in the <b>Gulf of Cambay off the western coast of India could be over 9,000 years old.</b>

The vast city - which is five miles long and two miles wide - is believed to predate the oldest known remains in the subcontinent by more than 5,000 years.

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<b>'Earliest writing' found</b>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/334517.stm
So-called 'plant-like' and 'trident-shaped' markings have been found on fragments of <b>pottery dating back 5500 years.</b>

They were found at a site called Harappa in the region where the great Harappan or Indus civilisation flourished four and a half thousand years ago.

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Lost city found off Indian coast
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1923794.stm

One of the expedition team, Graham Hancock, said: "I have argued for many years that the world's flood myths deserve to be taken seriously, a view that most Western academics reject.

"But here in Mahabalipuram, we have proved the myths right and the academics wrong."

Scientists now want to explore the possibility that the city was submerged following the last Ice Age. If this proves correct, it would date the settlement at more than 5,000 years old.

/* (Sunder's comments: this is news from 2002, now, they think Poompuhar is 7,000+ years old. */