I am from village Kelshi in Ratnagiri District.
As a child I often visited the seashore near my village and spent hours and hours looking at - and sometime digging with my hands- into the sand to find bits and remains of human civilization (such as coins, potteries etc., raw bricks etc.) We also witnessed the remains of houses and water wells. These remains often surfaced as the sand was washed away by the Arabian Sea waves and were mostly found below the current sea level.
I wondered how the water in the Arabian Sea went up in the past and was now going down washing a civilization lower than the Sea Level!! My elder brother told me that it was possible a tsunami that washed away a civilization and I laughed at him.
It was certainly like a mystery! I still proudly retain some of those coins and pieces of pottery.
If this article is true, we are sure to discover a great civilization older than the Indus???
I will be proud to show case some of the coins during any upcoming KCR event that I am having with me even in Riyadh.
Mohsin.
A civilisation as old as Indus valley?
Published: Friday, May 27, 2011, 1:28 IST
By DNA Correspondent | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA | |
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