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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]
Map showing hypothetical extent of Doggerland, c. 8,000 BC 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 ...
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 ...
This map showed the 49 nadus mentioned by Adiyarkunallar, and appears in the Tamil Nadu government's 1981 documentary. [54] A 1981 map published by N. Mahalingam depicted the lost land as "Submerged Tamil Nadu" in 30,000 BCE. [55] A 1991 map, created by R. Mathivanan, showed a land bridge connecting Indian peninsula to Antarctica.
A map showing the supposed extent of the Atlantean Empire. From Ignatius L. Donnelly's Atlantis: the Antediluvian World, 1882. [1] There are several hypotheses about real-world events that could have inspired Plato's fictional story of Atlantis, told in the Timaeus and Critias.
Archaeologists are recovering Stone Age artifacts from the bottom of the North Sea
Topographic map of Zealandia. A submerged continent or a sunken continent is a region of continental crust, extensive in size but mainly undersea.The terminology is used by some paleogeologists and geographers in reference to some landmasses (none of which are as large as any of the seven generally-recognized continents).
Archaeologists are beginning to reveal the secrets of a vanished prehistoric land which now lies at the bottom of the North Sea.. Using special dredges, scientists have just brought to the surface ...