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date: 12/31/2002 11:58:53 PM

subject: Important archaeological discovery in Russia

 

 

 

> As of now, methinks, we can put an end to many fruitless

discussions:

 

>

 

> such as about Pt. Frawley's Vedic, Stone Age kingdom in the

Gangetic basin

 

> at 10,000 BCE --mother of all civilizations on the planet--,

 

> or about Dr. Wells', by now genetically proven immigration of

speakers of

 

> Dravidian, also at 10,000 BCE.

 

>

 

> Russian scientists (or more correctly, their Turkish-speaking

Bashkir

 

> compatriots) have done us this great service! However, the

important news

 

> item has unfortunately been overlooked by all avid internet

citizens, so

 

> active on this and other Indian lists. Thanks to god(s), my

attention was

 

> drawn to it a few days ago and I can share with you here.

 

>

 

> The discovery has been published in the Russian newspaper of

Soviet fame,

 

> Pravda. Its name implies (nyet, it has always implied) "Truth":

 

>

 

> http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/04/30/28149.html

 

>

 

> In short: natural scientists of the Bashkir State University have

 

> discovered --in the Urals, remember: the home of the Aryans!-- a

hoary

 

> civilization that used ultra-modern technology, space based

 

> three-dimensional mapping, and air transport and thus had no need

for

 

> roads -- 120 million ( 1200,00 000 ) years ago...

 

>

 

> This scintillating discovery, supported by Chinese and American

natural

 

> scientists, should put to rest all those useless, never-ending

discussions

 

> by supremacist, Eurocentric etc. p.p. Indologists about an Aryan

invasion,

 

> or the truly patriotic Bha_rati_ya debate about a lost and found

 

> Sarasvati_ River, or the submersive Dravidianist seperatists' idea

of a

 

> lost Southern Continent off kanyakumArI (Lemuria), or even the

 

> anthropologists'/geneticists' new tale of recent, just 6 mill. to

150K

 

> b.p., human origins in Africa...

 

>

 

> Jiivatv anusandhaanam!

 

>

 

> A happy and fruitful 2003,

 

>

 

> MW

 

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