Devastating tsunami reveals drowned lost city in India

Harriet Brewis
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The Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 remains one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history.

Some 230,000 people died as the result of the cataclysm, which was sparked when a massive undersea earthquake off the western coast of Sumatra unleashed a series of devastating waves.

These crashed over coastal areas across the region, hitting countries including Indonesia, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. And yet, moments before an unimaginable tragedy was about to strike, a startling discovery was made.

As the water receded from a beach in Mahabalipuram, India, readying itself to return as a raging tsunami, a group of fishermen found themselves gazing at a portal into the past.

The men claimed to have glimpsed the remains of ancient temples that had been lying buried in the seabed, before the water returned to swallow them up once more.

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