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It has been widely accepted that up until about 10,000 years ago, humans were all hunter/gatherers.Â Recent findings and advancements in measurement toolsÂ have allowed some experts to shed new light on the dates of abandoned ruins found around the world.Â Here are four sets of underwater ruins that have mainstream science clashing with the fringe theorists.Â Only in this case, fringe theory is almost more believable.

Bimini Road

Bimini Road or The Bimini Ruins are a set of large stones found off the coast of the Bahamas.Â The stones that hold the road together are up to three meters in length, and appear to be laid out in a way so that all of the pieces fit together.Â It’s also interesting to note that this section of the Bahamas has been underwater for well over 10,000 years.Â The actual date is still heavily debated, and some scientists believe that this road formed naturally.

Underwater City (Cuba)

In 2001 a marine engineer by the name of Pauline Zalitzk stumbled upon something they couldn’t quite explain. She later went back with a team, and an underwater robot capable of taking sonar images. The result was something that looked like it could have been an urban center.Â However, some experts say that we can make assumptions based off of sonar images.

After studying the images, National Geographic senior editor John Echave said “They are interesting anomalies, but that’s as much as anyone can say right now, but I’m no expert on sonar and until we are able to actually go down there and see, it will difficult to characterize them.” Professor of Oceanography Robert Ballard was quoted as saying “That’s too deep, I’d be surprised if it was human. You have to ask yourself, how did it get there? I’ve looked at a lot of sonar images in my life, and it can be sort of like looking at an ink blot — people can sometimes see what they want to see. I’ll just wait for a bit more data.

There is one other small problem that science has with this. The ruins, or the anomalies that look like ruins, are under 2000-2500 feet of water. Meaning it would have been 50,000 years ago or more when this area was still dry land.

Marine Geologist Manuel Iturralde called for more samples before drawing conclusions about the site, saying “We have some figures which are extremely unusual but nature is much richer than we think.” Estimating that it would have taken 50,000 years for such structures to have sunken to the depth at which they were said to be found, he said “50,000 years ago there wasn’t the architectural capacity in any of the cultures we know of to build complex buildings.” A specialist in underwater archaeology at Florida State University added “It would be cool if they were right, but it would be real advanced for anything we would see in the New World for that time frame. The structures are out of time and out of place.”

Sadly, we’ll need to wait until someone like James Cameron can fund an expedition of this magnitude before claiming 50,000 year old advanced civilizations existed. Nevertheless, the sonar images look far more detailed than “ink blots.”

Yonaguni Monument

Yonaguni is in southern Japan, near the Ryukyu Islands. There are two main theories on how the structures/formation appear. The first one says that fluctuating water currents, and a lot of time, slowly molded the rock base on the ocean floor into what you see above. The other theory suggests that this was an advanced pre-ice age civilization which became submerged after years of melt off.

There is also Robert Schoch’s hypothesis which states the rock formation are natural, but modified by humans later.

Dwarka

Dwarka is under 120 feet of water off the coast of India. It has always been a myth until recent findings suggested otherwise.

“On the same day that Krishna departed from the earth the powerful dark-bodied Kali Age descended. The oceans rose and submerged the whole of Dwaraka.”

Archaeologists have also found artifacts in the area which have been carbon dated to being over 9,500 years old. Mainstream science currently isn’t accepting that the artifacts are that old, and if they are, they may not be related to the ruins at all.

In closing I’d just like to add; Earth is 4.54 billion years old.Â I don’t find it hard to believe that humans were building pyramids 10,000+ years ago.Â As our instruments get better we’ll slowly began to uncover the answers a lot of us are asking.