🇮🇳 India · Submerged site
Poompuhar – Sangam Drowned Port of Kaveripumpattinam
Iron Age Sangam to Early Chola (c. 500 BCE – 500 CE) · Tamil Sangam / Early Chola
Sangam Chola drowned wharf 1.5 km at –2 to –4 m off Kaveri mouth – U-breakwater at –4 m.
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🇮🇳 India · Submerged site
Iron Age Sangam to Early Chola (c. 500 BCE – 500 CE) · Tamil Sangam / Early Chola
Sangam Chola drowned wharf 1.5 km at –2 to –4 m off Kaveri mouth – U-breakwater at –4 m.
🇮🇳 India · Lost civilisation
Pleistocene aeolian limestone barrier-beach (5300 BCE barrier) + Tamil Sangam flood memory (~300 BCE) projected as lost continent pseudo 30ka pseudo at 9.09N 79.52E · Natural aeolian limestone barrier-island chain (Adam's Bridge 5300 BCE) + Tamil nationalist continental legend (Devaneya 1940)
Tamil Lemuria Kumari Kandam fantasy on Palk Strait Adam's Bridge — aeolian limestone bridge 50 km at –4 to –7 m claimed as submerged Kumari capital causeway.
🇮🇳 India · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Bronze Age–Classical
Poompuhar Submerged Chola Wharf South in Tamil Nadu, Poompuhar, India is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) submerged city attributed to Bronze Age–Classical.
🇮🇳 India · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Bronze Age–Classical
Dvarka Bet Submerged Harappan Anchorage in Gujarat, Bet Dwarka, India is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) submerged city attributed to Bronze Age–Classical.