How old is the Vedic Civilization?

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After the exploration undertook by Captain Cook it was thought that there was no land mass near the South Pole and that the early map makers had come up with this large land mass as they believed that the land masses near the North Pole had to be balanced by land masses near the South Pole. This was proven to be incorrect after the discovery of Antarctica.  It can also be proven that the Arctic and the Antarctic were not always under ice.  Woolly mammoths have been discovered in Siberia and an examination of their stomach contents reveal the presence of flowers like butter cups; this would only have been possible if Siberia had enjoyed warm climate. Since, the mammoths have been perfectly preserved in ice and the stomach contents have not been digested the ice age must have arrived quite suddenly.  Geological survey also shows that most part of Canada & the USA as far as the Mississippi valley were under ice at least around 25,000 years ago but the Arctic, Alaska and the Yukon territory of Canada were not covered by ice and had a warmer climate.  This was possible because the North Pole had been located at the Hudson Bay. During the last ice age, the Indian sub-continent was also under ice. The presence of ice sheets in the Indian sub-continent could easily be explained by the theory of continental drift. It can be shown that the Indian sub-continent was once inside the Arctic Circle and closer to the North Pole. There are also many Rig Vedic hymns that describe these polar conditions. In my next two posts I will elaborate on continental drift and polar/circum polar conditions experienced in the Indian sub-continent. This would push the date of the Vedic civilizations to at least the time period of the last ice age.

References:
The Maps of Ancient Sea kings by Charles Hapgood

The Path of the Pole by Charles Hapgood. 

Underworld by Graham Hancock

The Fingerprint of Gods by Graham Hancock

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