Science a GoGo's Home Page Forums General Discussion General Science Discussion Forum Recent NASA Photos, show an Ancient Bridge between India and SriLanka

Its a bridge some 18 miles long, and only 4ft under water at low tide today.
Some Archeologists suggest it could be thousands of years old, and that it was certainly used by man, before the sea's rose by up to 20 meters, about 6000 BCE
Whether its a natural ridge or manmade....the sat pictures are v interesting.

http://www.vahini.org/ramakatha2/ch7-bridge.html
and
http://www.answers.com/topic/rama-s-bridge

Interesting. Can you confirm any of this from a web site that is more authoritative?

Nice find, Mike. Very interesting. Keep up the good work!

That certainly does not look like a natural feature. It is far too straight and narrow. Looks like a man-made causeway, but I seriously doubt that it is more than a few thousand years old.

Narrow!? That's a satellite image! Looks to me like it's a couple of miles wide!

You are right...I hadn't noticed the scale.

I don't see how it could possibly be artificial at that scale. But it looks like it would have been passable by foot when sea levels were lower.

You can get a closer look at it with Google Earth.