This article was originally published in Atlantis Rising magazine in 2003 in my column, Notes from the Forbidden Archeologist.
In February of 2002, I was on a lecture tour of South India. At universities and other educational and cultural institutions in several cities, I was giving talks about the archeological evidence for extreme human antiquity documented in my book Forbidden Archeology. This evidence is consistent with accounts of a very ancient human presence on earth, found in the Vedas,
