dwarika has a special significance it's
the only place which is contemporary
with the events which are mentioned
sorry
krishna told in mahabharat city of
dwarka was built on reclaimed land but
when the sea level started going back
the city of dwarka got so much
i'm an underwater archaeologist
exploring
submerged archaeological sites in indian
waters
one of the major
excavation which was conducted by
the underwater archaeology wing was at
dwarika a site which is famous
for its historicity for its religious
importance
and also historical and archaeological
importance
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in the second half of the last century
archaeologists
made attempts to find the material
evidence so they can prove historicity
beyond doubt and the first excavation
was conducted in 60s by the deccan
college poona in 1979 archaeological
survey of india carried out another
excavation where excavator found some
pottery which he felt was
of the second millennium bce
excavation and exploration conducted in
and around duarika have revealed a
variety of archaeological remains we
have
nicely painted wears polychrome where
many colors are used we have bike rooms
where on red surface they are having the
black paintings it's more than 500
antiquities who are required from there
also the samples and dating materials
firmly establishing the cultural
sequence for almost 2000 years
underwater we found remains of stone
structures used block
but
we did not find associated pottery or
other objects as they are exposed on the
surface and there is a very strong
current the work on marine archaeology
are submerged workers started with the
excavation near the present or kadhish
temple and a series of temples were
excavated it means
temples were shifting towards land as
the sea level was rising this has
encouraged dr assar a very famous indian
archaeologist to think that why not do a
survey in offshore area and see is there
any evidence of the sunken city
and later on in the 2007 a detailed
excavation was conducted and i was the
director of that whole project tuarika
is located on the westernmost tip
here
location of which matches with whatever
is written in literature this is a small
stream
which comes and joins c here and it is
known as gomti
and this is the town of dwarika
so we selected an area around 200 meter
by 200 meter
and then
scientifically as we do in archaeology
we explored the area and all these
remains and in that again we found
around 50 meter area is having more
remains and they were of better size
well preserved here they found a thick
deposit of around 10 meter the
settlement was destroyed by the sea uh
we carried out micrographic survey
around two nautical mile by one nautical
mile a detailed hydrographic sheet of
this area will find that there is a
shift in the
position of this stream
and we very precisely measured them and
properly marked for diving operations
and we let down the grids and the grids
were numbered so one by one we explored
and when you go down actually you find
they are all overgrown with the
vegetation and once you clean then their
shapes start coming up some of the
structures were having a number of
courses
a large number of stone anchors have
been found from this area so that
establishes that it was an ancient port
and that is beyond doubt in nioh we
generated the record of last 15 000
years how sea level has fluctuated see
sea level was about 100 meters lower
than 15 000 years back sea level started
going up and around seven thousand year
it has passed the present sea level and
around three thousand five hundred years
back this is the time when
dwarka city was built and then when
again the sea level is going up
this became a summer city
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if we locate
the exact location of ancient settlement
it is going to be of very
high significance as far as history of
india is concerned
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