New Ancient Remains
Melissa and I visited the ancient stone temples at Mahabalipurum, south along the coast from Madras, just after the Tsunami in early January. Much of the work that had been done in recent years to save the temples from erosion had been washed away. And the entire shore temple area was closed to the public. So we assumed there had been some tremendous damage and loss. However, now the BBC reports that the Tsunami actually revealed several more important stone carvings and reason to believe that there is much more just off shore.
The deadly tsunami could have uncovered the remains of an ancient port city off the coast in southern India.Archaeologists say they have discovered some stone remains from the coast close to India's famous beachfront Mahabalipuram temple in Tamil Nadu state following the 26 December tsunami.
They believe that the "structures" could be the remains of an ancient and once-flourishing port city in the area housing the famous 1200-year-old rock-hewn temple.
Three pieces of remains, which include a granite lion, were found buried in the sand after the coastline receded in the area after the tsunami struck.
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