Lost 9,000-Year-Old City Found Underwater India #Shorts

[00:00:00]In May 2001, a research vessel pulled a single piece [music] of wood from 40 m beneath the Gulf of Cambay. When carbon dating returned the result, the laboratory ran the test three times. The wood was 9,500 years [music] old, and it had been carved by human hands in a place that, according to every history textbook ever written, [music] no civilization could have existed.

[00:00:22]Date to the end, the final piece of evidence in this story is the one no government, no archaeologist, and no historian has ever been able to fully explain. Cuz off the western coast of India, beneath the silt and currents of the Arabian Sea, lies the outline of a city, streets, walls, granaries, a drainage system. And if the dating is correct, and the National [music] Institute of Oceanography insists it is, then everything you were taught about the cradle of civilization is wrong by 4,000 years.

[00:00:48]This is the story of Dwarka, >> [music] >> the sunken city of Krishna, the lost coastal empire of India. Go back to the very first second of this. It hits completely differently now. Subscribe to History Unscripted [music] for a new story every day.