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
.
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.