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Thomas
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There's a curious, partially submerged land bridge between India and Sri Lanka. It's called Adam's Bridge due to the Muslim tradition that the original human, Adam, crossed it after being cast out from the Garden of Eden into Sri Lanka (then called Sarandib by Arabic geographers — the same name later gave birth to the word "serendipity" in English because of an old Persian tale of a Serendip prince making discoveries by accident). It's also called Rama's Bridge because the ancient Sanskrit epic Ramayana mentions a bridge constructed by the god Rama and his monkey army to reach the island Lanka and rescue his wife Sita.
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lucas
@elesel.eth
I was aware of the Sanskrit epic, but I didn't know about the muslim take on it. I heard it discussed once that it was indeed laid by humans though - any truth to this?
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Thomas
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There’s apparently no evidence of that despite regular claims to the contrary, but it is in fact what prompted me to research and make the root cast. One claim in particular is that a recent Indian GIS survey found evidence of wood at the bottom, as if people had built on top of the shallow stones and corals. I actually downloaded the report and it says otherwise (no evidence of man-made structures at all). However organic materials such as wood could possibly have disappeared over time. The confusion also came from one Indian official who apparently talked about this claim suggesting it was withheld from the report
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