Remains of an unknown civilization discovered in India

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Thanks to modern methods of scanning the area, the possibilities of archaeological searches have increased many times over today. For example, we wrote how, among the jungles of the Yucatan Peninsula, scientists using the lidar were able to find more than seventy thousand buildings of the Mayan civilization, which simply could not be done relying on the previous search tools.

Archaeologists of India made an equally amazing discovery, using again such advanced technologies, thanks to which they discovered petroglyphs in the state of Maharashtra that are at least 12 thousand years old. The most amazing thing is that these rock paintings belong to an ancient civilization, still unknown to science.

Why couldn't they find these cave drawings earlier? It is for the above reason: these petroglyphs, in view of their great antiquity, were under a thick layer of soil, and if not for modern opportunities … After all, even the local population knew practically nothing about all this. It would be more accurate to say that out of 52 villages, in the vicinity of which rock paintings were found, only the inhabitants of five settlements in India heard something about "pictures of the distant past" and even considered these places sacred (at least, there was some information about this, left by their ancestors).

At present, archaeologists, as they say, have only touched this historical wealth of more than 400 petroglyphs, for the full study of which the local leadership has allocated more than three million US dollars. Here's what Theas Garge, director of the Maharashtra State Department of Archeology, has to say about all this:

The original age of these rock paintings is 10 thousand years BC, but it is quite possible that they are much older. It is surprising not only the huge age of the petroglyphs and the almost unknown civilization that left them, but also the variety of the drawings themselves, which depict people, animals, birds, all kinds of symbols and much more - you still have to deal with this. It is also surprising that among the drawings there are such animals that are simply not found in India, say, hippos or rhinos. Either in ancient times they lived in this territory, or immigrants from Africa lived here …

Scientists suggest that archaeologists in India discovered the oldest petroglyphs of our planet, and the civilization itself, which left us such an amazing "legacy", was clearly a community of hunters and fishermen, since no plants have yet been found among the drawings, which suggests that the people who lived here were far away from agriculture and even gathering.