Lost continent located between India and Madagascar could be Lemuria, believers claim
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Lemuria is a hypothetical continent that supposedly sank millions of years ago. Photograph: (AI generated image)
Scientists have been studying Mauritia, a landmass that sank into the Indian Ocean when the supercontinent Gondwana broke apart. While this is a real body, some people think it is actually Lemuria, a lost continent hypothesised in the 19th century.
Under the Indian Ocean lie the remnants of the ancient subcontinent of Mauritia, which some people think is the same as the lost continent of Lemuria. The latter was proposed in the 19th century to explain the discovery of lemur fossils in India and Madagascar, which were divided by the Indian Ocean. Those who believe in Lemuria also say that an ancient civilisation resided on this continent, including a species with alien DNA and humanoids who laid eggs, but were killed by a nuclear war.
Scientists are trying to piece together an actual landmass that sank in the region known as Mauritia. This geological piece of land fell into the ocean when an ancient supercontinent broke apart. Supporters of the theory believe Lemuria and Mauritia are the same, even though no signs or remains of any civilisation preceding humans have been discovered.
Fossil discovery in India and Madagascar
Lemur fossils were found in India and Madagascar, but not in Africa, even though the continent was much closer to Madagascar. In an attempt to explain this anomaly, British zoologist and biogeographer Philip Sclater proposed in 1846 that a piece of land connected the two regions but sank to the bottom of the ocean. "In Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands we have existing relics of this great continent, for which... I should propose the name Lemuria!" he wrote. Since then, a bunch of people have amplified this theory, despite no evidence even being found.
Later, scientists discovered that India and Madagascar were once part of the same supercontinent, pushing the Lemuria theory out of the picture. But conspiracy theorists continued to peddle the belief about Lemuria, linking it to humans with alien DNA in them. The 1888 book, The Secret Doctrine, by spiritualist Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, talked of bodiless Hyperboreans and Lemurians that laid eggs. She claimed that the discovery of sex became responsible for the sinking of Lemuria, while others attributed their end to a massive earthquake.
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Underground city of Lemurians?
However, some Lemurians are believed to have escaped and established an underground city in Mount Shasta, Northern California. These seven-foot-tall Lemurians are merely conjecture, and no evidence has ever been found. The beliefs were strengthened after British author James Churchward talked about another lost continent named Mu, where a technologically advanced civilisation flourished 50,000 years ago.
Nuclear war in Lemuria
Another theory about Lemuria is that refugees from a planet called Maldek came to Earth and lived on this landmass after they destroyed their own home between Mars and Jupiter with a hydrogen bomb. This is how the asteroid belt was formed, some claim. However, they then had their own nuclear war on Earth, with believers pointing to the discovery of melted glass in the deserts of Libya.
Meanwhile, Mauritia was first described in 2013, with more details being revealed in 2017. It was part of Gondwanaland, a supercontinent that existed 200 million years ago. Scientists are now working to determine the size and shape of Mauritia.
