Lost Civilization Beneath The Indian Ocean

Archaeologists believe there are ruins of an ancient lost civilization beneath the waters of the Indian Ocean.

Evidence suggest humans lived in the area in and around the Persian Gulf Oasis for over 100,000 years before the region was swallowed up by the Indian Ocean about 8,000 years ago.

Jeffrey Rose, an archaeologist and researcher with the University of Birmingham in the U.K believes that humans may have established permanent settlements in the region thousands of years before current migration models suppose.

Scientists have collected evidence that indicate a wave of human settlements along the shores of the Gulf dating to about 7,500 years ago.

"Where before there had been but a handful of scattered hunting camps, suddenly, over 60 new archaeological sites appear virtually overnight," Rose said. "These settlements boast well-built, permanent stone houses, long-distance trade networks, elaborately decorated pottery, domesticated animals, and even evidence for one of the oldest boats in the world." Rose thins that evidence of preceding populations is missing because it is under the Gulf. "Perhaps it is no coincidence that the founding of such remarkably well developed communities along the shoreline corresponds with the flooding of the Persian Gulf basin around 8,000 years ago," Rose said.

"These new colonists may have come from the heart of the Gulf, displaced by rising water levels that plunged the once fertile landscape beneath the waters of the Indian Ocean."

Historical sea level data show that, prior to the flood, the Gulf basin would have been above water beginning about 75,000 years ago. And it would have been an ideal refuge from the harsh deserts surrounding it, with fresh water supplied by the Tigris, Euphrates, Karun, and Wadi Baton Rivers, as well as by underground springs.

When conditions were at their driest in the surrounding hinterlands, the Gulf Oasis would have been at its largest in terms of exposed land area. At its peak, the exposed basin would have been about the size of Great Britain, Rose says.

Evidence is also emerging that modern humans could have been in the region even before the oasis was above water.

Recently discovered archaeological sites in Yemen and Oman have yielded a stone tool style that is distinct from the East African tradition.

An ancient lost civilization may exist benetah the Indian Ocean. Image Credit: NASA

That raises the possibility that humans were established on the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula beginning as far back as 100,000 years ago or more, Rose says. That is far earlier than the estimates generated by several recent migration models, which place the first successful migration into Arabia between 50,000 and 70,000 years ago.

The Gulf Oasis would have been available to these early migrants, and would have provided "a sanctuary throughout the Ice Ages when much of the region was rendered uninhabitable due to hyperaridity," Rose said.

"The presence of human groups in the oasis fundamentally alters our understanding of human emergence and cultural evolution in the ancient Near East."

It also hints that vital pieces of the human evolutionary puzzle may be hidden in the depths of the Persian Gulf.

If we could explore the depths of the Indian Ocean, we might find the ruins of the ancient lost civilizations that inhabited this region in the past.

MessageToEagle.com based on material provided by the University of Chicago 

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World's Most Expensive Homes

1. Antilla, Mumbai
Price - $1 billion

The gizmo-filled posh pad, named "Antilla", claimed to be most expensive home till date, is a 27-story, 40,000 sq/ft tower that belongs to the head of Mumbai-based petrochemical giant Reliance Industries. The building will stand 570-ft tall above the ground and will have 400,000 sq. ft. of interior space. The home has six stories of parking space alone after which the living quarters with nine elevators and a host of storage rooms and lounges begin. Mostly glass, it has a staff of 600 servants, but at the rate this palatial home is getting blinged out, we won’t be entirely surprised if the number increased by a couple of hundreds more! This house is claimed as most expensive home for , the budget of this construction is some where around $1billion.










2. Villa Leopolda, Cote D’Azur, France

 

Price - $506 million
Villa Leopolda , second most expensive home after Antilla, situated on the French Riviera and built on 29,000 square feet of interior space that opens to manicured lawns and a swimming pool, it also has 11 bedrooms and 14 bathrooms. The house is not only known to have the best sea views in the south of France, but it also sits on 10 acres of immaculate grounds that run right down to the resort of Villefranche. Originally built for Belgian king Leopold's mistresses, this house has been a den of big shots like late banking magnate Edmund Safra, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Fiat tycoon Gianni Agnelli. The second most expensive home costs for $506million.

3. The Penthouse, London


Price - $200 million
The most expensive flat in the world, at £6,000 per sq/ft sits atop the 82 other apartments at the famous Number One Hyde Park address. Guarded by the SAS, with special features such a panic rooms, bulletproof windows, iris scanners and even a secret tunnel to the nearby Mandarin Hotel, the apartment is the biggest of all the luxury flats in the ambitious One Hyde Park. The building boasts communal spas, squash courts and even wine tasting rooms! This plush apartment will have 24-hour room service despite the floor to ceiling refrigerators. This most expensive flat or call it a home, costs for about $200million.

4. Fairfield Pond, The Hamptons

 
Price - $170 million
Fair Field, the Ira Rennert Estate, is named after Fairfield Pond, which is adjacent to the property. Located on 63 acres, the main home consists of 66,000 square feet, with additional outbuildings bringing the total living space to over 100,000 square feet. Italianate in design, there are 29 bedrooms, 39 bathrooms, squash and tennis courts and numerous other amenities. This expensive but luxurious home would cost you about $170million.

5. Hearst Mansion, Beverly Hills

 
Price - $165 million
This prestigious Beverly Hills mansion, which was once home of the US newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, has 6 separate residences, 3 swimming pools, eight fireplaces, a tennis court, a nightclub and 29 bedrooms, all spread across over 6 acres of land in a famed Beverly Hills environ called the Platinum Triangle. The nationally recognized home was then bought by lawyer and investor Leonard Ross in 1976, who wants a “lifestyle change.” Buying this would make you the owner of most expensive real estate in the US and moreover, you would become the next door neighbor to Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, including Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and David and Victoria Beckham.


6. Franchuk Villa, Kensington

 
Price - $161 million
This six-story property in Belgravia, central London, has 20-foot ceilings, luxurious fixtures and more than 21,000 square feet of living space. Along with Candy Spelling’s Holmby Hills mansion, this white-stucco-fronted house at No. 10 Belgrave Square, owned by Lebanese developer Musa Salem, is now the most expensive home on the market in the world. Mr. Salem bought this property many years back on a long lease from the Grosvenor Estate, with a condition to restore the house to full Victorian glory. The lavish amenities include an indoor swimming pool in the basement, a gym, a home theater, a garage room, a news house and much more. Franchuk Villa is considered as sixth most expensive home for the total budget involved about $161million

7. The Pinnacle, Montana

 
Price - $155 million
This luxury ski-lodge is to be the largest property in the exclusive billionaires-only private ski and golf community, “Yellowstone Club.” Naturally then, it will be the home of the owners of this elite group, Tim and Edra Blixseth. While not considered big compared to others on this list with only 10 bedrooms, this expensive home will include heated flooring throughout the house that stretches all the way to the heated driveway, as well as fireplaces in all bathrooms, a huge wine cellar, an indoor/outdoor pool, gym and massage room.

8. Spelling Manor, Los Angeles

 

 

Price - $85 million
British billionaire and F1 Chief Bernie’s daughter, Petra Ecclestone owns this Spelling Manor, situated at the Holmby hills, in Los Angeles, California. Petra bought this home for $85 million, far less than its listed price of $150 million, but it still made for a record breaking real estate deal.This French chateau-style mansion was built in 1991, and was earlier belonged to a television producer Aaron Spelling. It has 5,248 square meters of space on more than 4.6 acres and is also the largest private home in Los Angeles County. The house is enormously built on the three lavish story and is built on a stylish French château-style. The Spelling Manor has 14 bedrooms and 27 bathrooms in total including a gift-wrapping room, a bowling alley, a beauty salon and parking for 100 cars. The main Spelling house is located at the end of a long driveway and is protected by a security system. Other luxurious amenities include a bowling alley, a gift-wrapping room, a humidity-controlled silver storage room, tennis courts, two swimming pools, barber shop and beauty salon on attic, a spa, an 18th Century-style garden, rooftop garden, a citrus orchard and a parking space for over 100 cars. The screening room is also one of the major highlights, where a projector emerges from the floor at the click of a button as shades cover the windows.


9. Updown Court, Windlesham, Surrey


Price - $139 million
Built on a huge 58-acre estate amid the lavish surroundings of Windlesham, this expensive and massive structure features 103 rooms plus everything that can be described as magnificence and richness to the core. The uptown court offers a bowling alley and a private cinema for your recreation, stables if you love horses and squash and tennis courts to hit some shots when you want to relax. Apart from this, a heated marble driveway awaits you every morning together with a parking space big enough to accommodate eight limousines. This stands ninth in the list of most expensive home.

10. Dracula’s Castle, Romania

Price - $135 million

The last but not the least, Dracula’s Castle of Romania stands tenth in the list of most expensive home. This house is built on 200 ft. tall rock, the castle has 57 inviting rooms, courtyard and underground passages. It is said that Prince Vlad the Impaler, the ferocious warlord who inspired Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” character, lived in this castle for one night in 1400s. Digging a bit deep into the past, the Bran castle is believed to be originally built as a stronghold by the Teutonic Knights in 1212. From 1920 to 1948, the castle became the residence of royal family. Presently, the historical castle is operating as a museum of medieval arts and about 450,000 people visit the castle every year. And yes, do remember that you will be greeted by bats flying around the ramparts at twilight.

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The world's largest ship

Construction of the world’s largest ship is picking up speed. Recently, the very first propeller was loaded onto a Maersk Line container ship in Hamburg bound for the DSME shipyard in South Korea. The shipyard will build all 20 of the Triple-E vessels, the first to be delivered in July 2013. 

With a diameter of 10m and a weight of about 70 tons, the giant, four-bladed propeller for the first Triple-E was loaded onto Maersk Salalah. Two of these propellers will provide the thrust for the 400-metre-long Triple-E’s.

Instead of one large six-blade propeller, like the one seen on the left in the photo, research at Maersk Maritime Technology has concluded that the Triple-E’s will be more energy efficient with two four-bladed propellers. 

Manufactured by Mecklenburger Metallguss GmbH (MMG) in Germany, the propellers are cast in moulds with 500 tonnes of weight placed on top to counter the buoyancy of alloy as hot as 1,190-degree Celsius. 

The construction of ten Triple-E vessels, each capable of carrying 18,000 twenty foot containers, will put Maersk Line at the helm of change. The size and capacity of these vessels, at 400 metres long and 59 metres wide, will help reduce energy consumption and lower CO2 emissions.

Facts at a glance:
• A Triple-E class vessel is equipped with a waste heat recovery system, saving up to 10% of main engine power. This equals the average annual electrical consumption of 5,000 European households.
• The Triple-E class travels 184 kilometres using 1 kWh of energy per ton of cargo, whereas a jumbo jet travels half a kilometre using the same amount of energy per ton of cargo.
• The vessel can carry 18,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units (TEU). If all these containers were to be put on a train - it would need to be 110 km long - and if they were put on top of each other they would almost reach beyond the stratosphere (47 km).

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Parade sculptures of flowers

Parade sculptures of flowers "Bloemencorso" held in Zundert, the Netherlands each year. Apparitions statue below all original made ​​of flowers, especially dahlias.

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Futuristic House for Naomi Campbell

Vladislav Doronin squillionaires Russia is building a house for his girlfriend supermodel Naomi Campbell in Barvikha, outside Moscow. The house is named Capital Hill-designed by Zaha Hadid - Residence standing on top of an area of ​​2500 square meters.

 

Interior space is made of 4 levels. Low - living room, gym, massage room, sauna, and runang Russian-style bath. A higher level - a hall for the reception, indoor pool, dining room and kitchen. Higher - a library, a large hall, living room and nursery (garden). At the highest level - the master bedroom and a large terrace.

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The Most Amazing Butterfly In The World

Weird News - Among the many animals that may be completely missing from the earth there are some species that can be described as "works of art from nature", that butterflies are colorful and beautifully patterned dwindling by the day.

Here is list of the Butterflies 5 Most Amazing In The World
 

1. Purple Spotted Swallowtail

 

Spotted Purple butterfly Swallowtail butterfly is no doubt of its beauty, but its habitat is threatened. Can only be found in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, this beautiful butterfly from the Papilionidae family, and is a butterfly which is very rare.
 

2. Red Lacewing
 

There are many kinds of beautiful butterflies that inhabit the areas in the Philippines, which is a type of Red Lacewing. This butterfly is not a butterfly belonging to the category of endangered and can easily be found in India, Nepal, China and Indonesia. With striking colors and complex patterns, butterflies can indeed be said to be a work of art.
 
3. Blue Morpho

 
The butterfly is a type of butterfly species that has a metallic blue color. Around the world, the average person like the color blue, so many who love this butterfly species. The color is shiny rhythm that makes it different in appearance. Blue Morpho Butterfly, has a wingspan of up to 8 inches, is found in the Central and South America and in Mexico.
 
4. Leopard Lacewing
 

East region is home to some of the world species of butterflies that interesting, but perhaps the most striking is the Leopard Lacewing. Brightly colored, with a scheme that is truly unique from the pattern on the wings. This species can be found in India, China, Malaysia and Singapore.
 
5. Peacock Butterfly

 
Europe has a lot of the number of species of beautiful butterflies, though perhaps the prettiest and most colorful is the Peacock Butterfly. It is a kind of artistic in appearance. Type stunning butterfly can be found in Europe and in the temperate regions of Asia. This species is not a big butterfly, the base color on the wings is a rusty red color, and the tip of each wing has a motive

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How Turtle Sailing

Many studies have noted how the turtles migrate back to their homeland after 10 years of wandering the seas, but the results are not satisfactory. How were the turtles do not just go back to where it came from, but they can also find a way to get home after wandering. Everyone knows that in finding his way all the time, these creatures show extraordinary intelligence.

How Turtle SailingSome opinions have difficulty in solving the turtle, think that for the first time in your life, you're going to a place with the right conditions so that you may be able to stay. You can find this place without making mistakes, and then for the first time, you can go to another place right. Assuming beforehand that you have to go back, you try to remember every character in this place make notes on aroma, features of the natural environment, even a natural attraction to the area. When you go back to this place, you bring all the recorded information that is ready to be played. In this case of course the system can not only determine your knowledge about the natural attractions of this place but you can also make something right out of your environment through the determination of the identity of these characters.
Of course it is impossible to do all of this without the help of technology tools. Of course, absurd to imagine that the turtle can do the same thing in him.
In a period of research on the turtles are still not clear to understand. Even if we know how they could do this, the system turns out they do not grow by itself.

God created everything in the world and prove to his eternal intelligence in every corner of the world. Allah gives to whom He wills in accordance with His knowledge appropriate that he wanted. Those who deny God, they will find no where else, even if they conduct research throughout their lives. Described in the Qur'an that God does not exist anymore (besides Allah).

Meaning: "Verily your Lord is Allah, who there is no god but He. His knowledge encompasses all things." (Al-Quran : Thoha: 98)
# SourcesHarunYahya.com

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THE END OF THE UNIVERSE AND THE BIG CRUNCH

The Big Crunch theory proposes that the universe, that began expanding with the Big Bang, will collapse in on itself with increasing speed. According to the theory, this collapse of the universe will continue until the universe has lost all its mass and turned into a single point of infinite density.

As we have stated above, the creation of the universe began with a huge explosion. From this point, the universe has been expanding ever since. Scientists say that when the mass of the universe has reached a sufficient level, this expansion will come to an end because of gravity, causing the universe to collapse in on itself. 3

It is also believed that the contracting universe will end in a fierce heat and contraction known as the "Big Crunch." This would lead to the end of all forms of life as we know them. Renata Kallosh and Andrei Linde, professors of physics from Stanford University, made the following statements on the subject:

    The universe may be doomed to collapse and disappear. Everything we see now, and at a much larger distance that we cannot see, will collapse into a point smaller than a proton. Locally, it will be the same as if you were inside a black hole... We have found that some of the best attempts to describe dark energy predict that it will gradually become negative, which will cause the universe to become unstable, then collapse... Physicists have known that dark energy could become negative and the universe could collapse sometime in the very distant future... but now we see that we might be, not in the beginning, but in the middle of the life cycle of our universe. 4

This is how this scientific hypothesis of the Big Crunch is indicated in the Qur'an:

    That Day We will fold up heaven like folding up the pages of a book. As We originated the first creation so We will regenerate it. It is a promise binding on Us. That is what We will do. (Qur'an, 21:104)

In another verse, this state of the heavens is described thus:

    They do not measure Allah with His true measure. The whole earth will be a mere handful for Him on the Day of Rising the heavens folded up in His right hand. Glory be to Him! He is exalted above the partners they ascribe! (Qur'an, 39:67)

According to the Big Crunch theory, the universe will begin to collapse slowly and will then increasingly pick up speed. At the end of the process the universe will have infinite density and be infinitely hot and small. This scientific theory runs parallel to the Qur'anic explanation of this particular scientific concept. (Allah knows best)

http://miraclesofthequran.com/

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ISLAMIC & SCIENCE

In Islam, science and technology is critical to building a strong and resilient civilization. As the first Muslim caliph pushing for creation of technologies and making scientific work to develop and utilize the existing natural resources. As we know scientists like al-Khwarizmi Islamic mathematician Ibn Firnas drafter aircraft, Jabir Ibn Haiyan father of chemistry, and much more. They all put all the effort and work for the people. So, Islam never forbids science and technology, but rather Islam has always been the forefront of science and technology since the 13th century.

In a hadith the Prophet SAW said:
"You better know your world affairs"
This hadith shows the permissibility of science and technology because at that time the Prophet was asked by someone on the farm, but the Prophet did not give the correct answer because the Prophet was not an expert in agriculture.
Thus, science and technology are Madaniyah 'am the object that had nothing to do with hadlarah. As Imam an-Nabhani Taqiyuddin Nizhamul Islam in his book that "The forms are a product Madaniyah advancement of science and technology development / industry Madaniyah quite general nature, belongs to all mankind". Madaniyah itself is a form of physical forms bentu objects terindera and used in life that covers all activities of life.

So with this it is clear that the products of science and technology in the Islamic view allowed / permissible. But remember there are also Madaniyah bahwasannya that are typical of such statues, crosses, stars david, etc. it is the work / results of hadlarah than Islam, then using it is a wickedness and haraam.
We need to know that hadlarah is a set of ideas / understanding of life. Each has a different ideology hadlarah. West, for example, the purpose of life for them is to seek pleasure by seeking the maximum benefit, while Islam aims to reach please Allah and the default is halal-haram. This means that the use of science and technology in Islam is to reach out to please Allah.

 

The conclusion is that Islam regards the objects of science and technology results are permissible. Anyone can pick it up and use it. In use is different anatara Islamic minded people with like-minded people capitalist or socialist. Then we select the glasses stay right where to look and menghukumi various facts. Islam? Capitalist? Or socialist? Life is a choice then choose the best option because we would dipertnggung accountable in the Hereafter.

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