Japan’s Underwater Pyramid
Ever since Plato told a story about an advanced civilization that vanished into the sea to amuse his guests at a party, people have been looking for evidence of Atlantis. Any underwater find that looks like an old stone building brings up the subject of Atlantis again, at least in the tabloids.
Underwater rock formations resembling a pyramid found off Yonaguni Jima Island in the Ryukyu Islands of Japan may represent the Asian version of Atlantis according to Masaaki Kimura, a marine geologist at the University of the Ryukyus in Japan.
On the other hand, Robert Schoch, a professor of science and mathematics at Boston University claims “It’s basic geology and classic stratigraphy for sandstones, which tend to break along planes and give you these very straight edges, particularly in an area with lots of faults and tectonic activity.”
The Japanese government has taken a hands-off approach, leaving the arguments to the academic community to make a determination as to whether the formation is man-made or natural.
In the meantime this will become an underwater tourist attraction to rival the Bimini Road as a controversial ancient man-made ruin or natural rock formation.
It’s a shame that ancient civilizations never caught on to the use of corner stones to record the date of their constructions and what the construction was designed for. It would go a long way to resolve the mystery of Stonehenge and resolve the arguments about formations such as the Yonaguni “Pyramidâ€.
Unfortunately, many civilizations left ruins behind that were ancient before the Sumerians invented writing.
By Super Sied on 13-04-2008
Comment by DARKWING DUCK
April 13th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
It is
what It is.
Comment by stephanie
April 13th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
That is man made!
Comment by Mickey J Barczyk
April 13th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
And the movie killed the DNA
Comment by tourex
April 14th, 2008 at 12:11 am
It’s ignorant to believe that the formations are formed naturally.Our earth is too vast for us to totally understand the past,just like outer space.
Comment by Trish
April 14th, 2008 at 12:31 am
The lost continant of Mu is nothing new. Keep an open mind.
Comment by Nina
April 14th, 2008 at 8:13 am
Vid is kinda cheesy. But the music is really nice
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Comment by James
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Well damned if that isn’t the plot to Endless Ocean…
Comment by Jason
June 14th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Egyptians didn’t believe in just one god. They had many deities. I don’t believe that this is a lost continent, or a lost civilisation. They look like natural geological formations. Just because a rock formation is flat, square, or if a rock has holes in it that resembles a face, doesn’t mean it’s human made.
Comment by CHRIS
June 22nd, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Read the BIBLE……. It’s one of Nimrod’s towers of Babel.
Comment by Martel
June 25th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Do you ever wonder why the ancient civilizations just popped up out of nowhere.. where is the foundation for the pyramids in Egypt? People don’t just wake up one day and decide they know how to build something like that..it takes hundreds, probably thousands of years of developing skills to get to that point.. Remember that the land mass of earth was much bigger 10 to 12 thousand years ago…thousands of square miles have been swallowed by the ocean as sea levels rose after the ice age ended.. I would not be surprised to learn that there were just as many civilizations 10000 years ago as there was 4000 years ago..
Comment by k
August 26th, 2008 at 12:40 am
lol, you think that’s natural, so naive some people are…how about the ancient metropolis off the coast of Cuba?
Comment by goldenchalis
September 6th, 2008 at 9:22 am
10,000 years ago the civilizations that lived on earth were astronomically far more intelligent than the present day human being, to build structures such as these were an easy feat for them, everything was gigantic in size, why? because their brains were also bigger.
Its the Ignorant people of today, that obviously do not want knowledge, a vast majority of people have lost all self- esteem to even mirror themselves.
There will be many more SECRETS to unfold in the next few years, and it is up to us whether to comprehend it or ignore it.
Comment by thomas campbell
November 26th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Your are indeed right the so called modern man is rather small in mentality,and inssignificant in size. As it relates to ancient man. They were the giants however there are still 13 left.
Comment by chingkulingkang
December 10th, 2008 at 7:15 am
will be under the water in near future and thats for sure, global warming. scientist should study how we (humans) can survive under the water, they should focus on it, all land will become atlantis.
Comment by Robin
March 10th, 2009 at 9:15 am
That’s not natural. Someone tell me what natural process can produce straight tiers in rock formations underwater? Obviously some academics are not concerned about the real possibilities of ancient civilisations possessing true technology and are too absorbed into textbooks which warps their thinking. Why also has the Japanese government kept this low key? This is big news which never made it over here in Perth (Aus). More photos are needed to verify the claims that its natural.
Comment by Craig Nicholls
December 7th, 2009 at 10:18 am
If this is natural and those whom make such comments are here to confuse the masses with doubts. With abundance of ignorant upon this planet, the masses, with religon, with bigotry, with racism, with anyway to debunk such truth. I challenge all with a whisper of alter evidence, prove how, why, when, and who built all these amazing contructions and then try to fool the population that its all our emagination. THE EVIDENCE IS HERE, THIS IS REAL. This is it, we cant stop, we cant start again and we cant fast forward to the end. LOL sound familar. He's Anunnaki, and probably doesnt know.
Comment by Brian
December 17th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Other web sites show photos of what are pretty obviously worked stairs. I believe the formations are natural, but worked to make them more useful. As for the age being so great, I believe that humans have had modern style intelligence for longer than most archaeologists believe.
For example, horses were domesticated much earlier than admitted to, as can be seen from carvings of horse heads with bridles. The normal claim is that those were decorations on the carving or that the horses were used as stalking horses for hunting, and not actually ridden. That seems silly since native americans were riding horses quickly after they got ahold of some. That's just human nature, to conquer our environment. The Great Sphinx is another example of something older than archaeologists like to admit.
These formations are simply more of the same. Older than most scientists like to admit. I suppose admitting that makes them seem more ignorant since it puts huge holes in their knowledge of the history of civilizations. No, I don't like that either, but it certainly isn't their fault.
Comment by commanchee
December 17th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
that's why people like you believe the world was flat 500 yrs ago
come on,get off the drugs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by michael besseck
January 23rd, 2010 at 1:15 am
this is most intreging puts new light on pangea and the land bridges,and hommer.
Comment by Jeremy
February 10th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
Why do they feel they need to come up with some crazy ass theory every time something of actual proof pops up I think thats awesome new pyramids. from what I read the fisherman in the area new about it but didn't think it was that great LOL. I also read that carbon dating actual SCIENTIFIC PROOF!! lol shows that its 10,000 years old. Something we have not been able to do before to most other pyramids since there all stone but coral growing on them is not woot!!
Comment by Sarah
February 16th, 2010 at 10:07 pm
You can't carbon date stone, and the coral growing on it only tells you how old the coral is.
Comment by MrArchaeologyMan
February 16th, 2010 at 11:51 pm
There is no concievable way that dynamic wave action could carve what looks like granite into an angular structure with straight lines, and on that scale. Some of these 'scientists' need to get thier heads out of thier books and look at the real world. I believe this discovery WILL rewrite what we know about ancient civilizations, and it might give us insight how the knowledge to build the pyramids at Giza, as well as the aztec and mayans, amongst hundreds of other monolithic structures came to fruition.
Comment by sciencelies
February 17th, 2010 at 4:36 pm
Archeology is a shady business. I have personally seen it first hand.
Universities will deliberately tamper with evidence to protect their funding, careers and years of propitiatory data.
One example is the scandal of 'hobbit' people(Homo floresiensis) of Indonesia. Small craniums, yet a highly civilized ancient people. That finding proved hundred of evolutionary theories wrong and many of the fossils were deliberately destroyed to protect many careers, the Jakarta's National Research Centre of Archaeology and established evolutionary theories.
Many who worked on that site warned the media and UNESCO of the fraud and scientific coup about to take place by the established authorities. I too wrote letters warning before it all went down and was ridiculed.
Research it folks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis
This 'pyramid' is another case of the old guard dismissing the truth to protect their own interests. If this structure is man made, all their life's work goes down the toilet.
Comment by sciencelies
February 17th, 2010 at 4:57 pm
Here is the original article I wrote.
Check the date of the post(12/30/04), before the fossils were altered and returned on 2/23/05, 2 months later!
Was I a psychic? Of course not.
But a simple blogger who's love of truth and dug deep.
The article has since been removed but if you click on Google cache it still appears.
#12163: roscojo — 12/30 at 04:54 AM
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:R2o8q1DiEhoJ:...
Comment by marian j
June 24th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
The structures are created by the people who built the so called "Babylon Tower", who are also known as the Atlantids. They inhabitied the earth before the "modern human". The problem is that they became evil in time, so God punished them by destrying their civilization within the great flood.
Comment by zagbona
July 14th, 2010 at 5:49 pm
Aliens, aliens did it!