Underwater Dwarka
What was like before the city sunk?
Could the undeniably geometric ruins in India’s Gulf of Cambay be the lost city of Lord Krishna?
Many Indians believe so, designating Dwarka as an important site for Hindu pilgrimage. The ruins are located just off the coast of modern-day Dwarka, one of the seven oldest cities in India. The ancient Dwarka was a planned city built on the banks of the Gomati river but was eventually deserted and submerged into the sea, as documented in texts like the Mahabharata and Purana, though some experts maintain that it was mythological.
As the story goes, Lord Krishna had a beautiful and prosperous city built, with 70,000 palaces made of gold, silver and other precious metals. It was his death that supposedly sent Dwarka sinking into the sea.
The ruins, discovered in 2000 and investigated with acoustic techniques, are known as the Gulf of Khambat Cultural Complex. They’re 131 feet beneath the surface. One of the artefacts dredged up by scientists was dated around 7500 BCE, which could support the theories that it is, in fact, the ancient Dwarka.
(Taken from http://weburbanist.com/2013/04/22/submerged-cities-7-underwater-wonders-of-the-world/)
Activity:
- Predicting what happened in the city. (Build up expectation of city)
- Being "in" the city.
- Found out the truth about why the city sank.
-Getting to look back as an archaeologist and come up with a name for the museum.
Objectives of workshop
- Emotions people go through in a disaster.
- Understand that there is decision in life that we have to make which is not about being right or wrong.
- Understand that there is decision in life that we have to make which is not about being right or wrong.
Resource
The film depicts the aftermath of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake.
In the aftermath of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, a rescue team informs Li that her twins are trapped together under a slab of concrete. Lifting the slab in any way will kill one of her children. Heartbroken, she decides to save her son, Fang Da. The girl, Fang Deng, survives and wakes up later to find herself among several dead bodies.
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