Mahabalipuram
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New Delhi, on February 15. When the mortal tsunamis of last December stepped back, dug up several sculptures that date of the VIIth century and they might be related to a mysterious port immersed in the southeast of the India, pointed out archaeologists.
The sculptures and other structures were seen first by fishermen in the city of the temple of Mahabalipuram, approximately 60 kilometers to the south of Madrás, the capital of the been southerner of Tamil Nadu.
According to a myth, Mahabalipuram or Mamallapuram were so beautiful that inclusive the gods had jealousy and unleashed a flood that swallowed the city in only one day.
Newspaper El Mundo
Between the extracted remains of the sea in the last days there is a lion of granite that was found semiburied in the sand. ‘It is probable that there are traces of the port city that existed here before the water was taking it, in the VIIth century A.D. There can be a part of a building or of one of the temples’, made sure to the BBC T. Sathiamoorthy, one of the persons in charge the Archaeological Service of the India.
The experts could have determined that the remains are approximately of the VIIth century, and had a height of approximately 2 meters. Also, there can be seen elaborated engravings similar to those who today can still be seen in the temple of Mahabalipuram that survives, considered by the UNESCO Patrimony of the Humanity.
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