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(excerpt from the World Island Review, January 1992)
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ANCIENT CITY FOUND, IRRADIATED FROM ATOMIC BLAST
Radiation still so intense, the area is highly dangerous.
A heavy layer of radioactive ash in Rajasthan, India, covers a three
square mile area, ten miles west of Jodhpur. Scientists are investigating the
site, where a housing development was being built.
For some time it has been established that there is a very high rate of
birth defects and cancer in the area under construction. The levels of
radiation there have registered so high on investigators' gauges that the
Indian government has now cordoned off the region.
Scientists have unearthed an ancient city where evidence shows an atomic
blast dating back thousands of years, from 8,000 to 12,000 years, destroyed
most of the buildings and probably a half-million people.
One researcher estimates that the nuclear bomb used was about the size of
the ones dropped on Japan in 1945.
The Mahabharata clearly describes a catastrophic blast that rocked the
continent.
"A single projectile charged with all the power in the Universe... An
incandescent column of smoke and flame as bright as 10,000 suns, rose in all
its splendour...it was an unknown weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic
messenger of death which reduced to ashes an entire race.
"The corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable. Their hair and
nails fell out, pottery broke without any apparent cause, and the birds turned
white.
"After a few hours, all foodstuffs were infected. To escape from this
fire, the soldiers threw themselves into the river."
A HISTORIAN COMMENTS
Historian Kisari Mohan Ganguli says that Indian sacred writings are full
of such descriptions, which sound like an atomic blast as experienced in
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He says references mention fighting sky chariots and
final weapons. An ancient battle is described in the Drona Parva, a section
of the Mahabharata.
"The passage tells of combat where explosions of final weapons decimate
entire armies, causing crowds of warriors with steeds and elephants and
weapons to be carried away as if they were dry leaves of trees," says Ganguli.
"Instead of mushroom clouds, the writer describes a perpendicular
explosion with its billowing smoke clouds as consecutive openings of giant
parasols. There are comments about the contamination of food and people's
hair falling out."
ARCHEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION PROVIDES INFORMATION
Archeologist Francis Taylor says that etchings in some nearby temples he
has managed to translate suggest that they prayed to be spared from the great
light that was coming to lay ruin to the city.
"It's so mind-boggling to imagine that some civilization had nuclear
technology before we did.
"The radioactive ash adds credibility to the ancient Indian records that
describe atomic warfare."
Construction has halted while the five member team conducts the
investigation. The foreman of the project is Lee Hundley, who pioneered the
investigation after the high level of radiation was discovered.