From: ur-valhalla!cts.com!density4 (That 4th Density Dude)
Subject: Ancient Nuclear War
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Date: Sat, 21 Oct 95 16:30 PDT

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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
threesquare 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 ito 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.

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