Posted on Tuesday 15 October 2002

IndiaExpress.com simply refuses to be outdone by Pravda.

NASA discovers bridge of Ramayana period

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) space shuttle has imaged a mysterious ancient bridge between India and Sri Lanka, as mentioned in the Ramayana. The evidence, according to experts is in the Digital Image Collection.

The bridge, which was discovered only recently, was named as Adam’s Bridge. It is made of a chain of shoals, 30 km long, in the Palk Straits between India and Sri Lanka. The bridge reveals the mystery behind it. The bridge's unique curvature and composition by age reveals that it is man-made. Legend as well as Archeological studies have it that the first signs of human inhabitants in Sri Lanka date back to the primitive age, about 17,50,000 years ago. And the bridge is almost equivalent.

Update: Actually there's a tad more to this, Adam's Bridge (or Rama's Bridge) really exists and is a

...chain of shoals, c.18 mi (30 km) long, in the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka. At high tide it is covered by c.4 ft (1.2 m) of water...According to Hindu legend, the bridge was built to transport Rama, hero of the Ramayana, to the island to rescue his wife from the demon king Ravanna.

And NASA really did image it (in the mid 1990's). The original story appears to have been lifted from the real Pravda wannabe VNN who in turn lifted it from INDOlink.