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Mu is a lost continent introduced by Augustus Le Plongeon (1825–1908), who identified the "Land of Mu" with Atlantis.The name was subsequently identified with the hypothetical land of Lemuria by James Churchward (1851–1936), who asserted that it was located in the Pacific Ocean before its destruction. [1]
He named this submerged land Lemuria, as the concept had its origins in his attempts to explain the presence of lemur-like primates (strepsirrhini) on these three disconnected lands. Before the Lemuria hypothesis was rendered obsolete by the continental drift theory, a number of scholars supported and expanded it.
There is a vast fringe literature pertaining to Lemuria and to related concepts such as the Lemurian Fellowship and other things "Lemurian". All share a common belief that a continent existed in what is now either the Pacific Ocean or the Indian Ocean in ancient times and claim that it became submerged as a result of a geological cataclysm. An ...
Although the existence of lost continents in the above sense is mythical (aside from Zealandia [1] and Greater Adria [2]), there were many places on Earth that were once dry land, but submerged after the ice age around 10,000 BCE due to rising sea levels, and possibly were the basis for Neolithic and Bronze Age flood myths.
This research, led by Nick Mortimer, dredged the northern two-thirds of the submerged area, pulling up pebbly and cobbley sandstone, fine-grain sandstone, mudstone, bioclastic limestone, and ...
Submerged continents have been sought and speculated about in regard to a possible "lost continent" underwater in the Atlantic Ocean. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] There was also a search in the 1930s for Lemuria , thought to have been a possible submerged continent between the Indian and African coasts.
Atlantis, mythical ancient submerged continent. Kumari Kandam; Lemuria, hypothetical continent in the Indian Ocean. Meropis; Mu, often called the lost continent. Terra Australis, mystical southern land, now confirmed as Antarctica.
This research, led by Nick Mortimer, dredged the northern two-thirds of the submerged area, pulling up pebbly and cobbley sandstone, fine-grain sandstone, mudstone, bioclastic limestone, and ...