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Images Find 1.7 Million Year Old Man-Made Bridge
The NASA Shuttle has imaged a mysterious ancient bridge between
India and Sri Lanka. The bridge was purportedly passable on foot until 1480 AD
when a cyclone moved the sand around.
This recently-discovered bridge has been found to be made of a
chain of limestone shoals. Its unique curvature and composition by age reveals
that it is man made. The bridge currently named as Adam’s Bridge (most
popularly known as Ram Setu) is about 18 miles (30 km) long.
This bridge starts as chain of shoals from the Dhanushkodi tip
of India’s Pamban Island and ends at Sri Lanka’s Mannar Island. Water between
India and Sri Lanka is only 3 to 30 feet (1 to 10 meter) deep. Owing to shallow
waters, this bridge presents a problem in navigation as big ships cannot travel
in the shallow waters of the Pamban channel.
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). Ages before modern civilization
revolutionized this part of the globe.
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