The Tamil people originated in South India and Sri Lanka over 200,000 years ago according to a Tamil dictionary project. Their language spread throughout areas of South and Southeast Asia. Tamil accounts describe a now submerged continent called Kumari Kandam that was the original homeland for Tamils. Archaeological evidence from sites in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka suggests human settlements dating back hundreds of thousands of years, supporting Tamil oral histories of ancient civilizations in the region. Geological features like Adam's Bridge between India and Sri Lanka also confirm connections between the areas in ancient times described in Hindu and Tamil legends.

1. The Tamil people live in the southern part of India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Their
Dravidian Language is spoken in those places and variations thereof can be found as
far up as Pakistan and Nepal as well as Singapore, Malaysia and even Madagascar. I
mention this because it confirms the Tamils beliefs that they come from a now sunken
continent from which their ancestors fled to India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri
Lanka, Madagascar. In ancient Tamil accounts this sunken Continent is referred to a
variety of names but today it is called "Kumari Kandam": Of course this neatly agrees
with all other ancient sources elsewhere saying that there was a massive flood that
submerged all the land - an idea that modern academia totally rejects. And guess
what? The first people of Madagascar are not Africans or Arabs, as the vicinity would
suggest, but Austronesians, as depicted by this image of Madagascarian Pre-
History: By lucky coincidence I found this map looking up the prehistory of
Madagascar and was astonished how it ties in to Tamil Mythology showing Madascar
being the outer tip of an area.
A Dictionary Project of the Government of Tamil Nadu (the Government of South
India) published the following Timeline for the History of the Tamil people:
200 000 to 50 000 BC: Evolution of the Tamil and their Language
50 000 BC: Kumari Kandam Civilization
16 000 BC: Kumari Kandam Submerged
6087 BC: Second Tamil Kingdom established
1780 BC: Third Tamil Kingdom established
Scientists have acknowledged that the language, the people, the culture and the
literature are some of the oldest to be found on earth - anywhere. A Wikipedia snippet
says:
Tamil Nadu's history dates back to pre-historic times. Archaeological evidence points
to this area being one of the longest continuous habitations in India. In Adichanallur,
24 km (15 mi) from Tirunelveli, archaeologists from the Archaeological Survey of
India unearthed 169 clay urns containing human skulls, skeletons and bones, plus
husks and grains of rice, charred rice and Neolithic celts, giving evidence confirming
them to be of the Neolithic period, 3800 years ago
Ancient Tamil literature may also be among the earliest to mention flying chariots, a
concept later discovered in other cultures and religious texts: Tamil researchers seem
to have discovered that their language went through a De-Evolution rather than an
Evolution. They refer to the language as it was thousands of years ago to the "golden

2. age" of their language. This would seem to confirm the idea of an advanced
civilization in pre-history. Tamil Nadu is also the home of Jainism a Religion that is
of unknown and mysterious origins of which some rumor it was carried down from
the pre-flood days. This image depicts the rather advanced looking Cosmology of
Jainism: Western Academics have been harsh in trying to debunk the Tamils history.
One reason for this must be that it does not match western views of History. Another
is of course that after such a long time evidence supporting it is hard to come by.
However, once in awhile evidence comes along that makes you scratch your head and
ask: "What if...?". One such pieces of evidence is known as Adams
Bridge: Geological evidence suggests that this bridge is a former land connection
between India and Sri Lanka It confirms Tamil legends about the area being above
water in ancient times. But not only that, the Bridge also confirms Hindu legends:
the bridge was first mentioned in the ancient Sanskrit epic Ramayana of Valmiki. The
name Rama's Bridge or Rama Setu (Sanskrit; setu: bridge) was given to this bridge of
shoals in Rameshwaram, as Hindu legend identifies it with the bridge built by the
Vanara (monkey-men) army of Rama , which he used to reach Lanka and rescue his
wife Sita from the Rakshasa king, Ravana, as stated in the Sanskrit epic Ramayana.
But thats not all. The Bridge was even mentioned in ancient Islamic legend as having
to do with Adam (yes, Adam as in the biblical first human):
referring to an Islamic legend, according to which Adam used the bridge to reach
Adam's Peak in Sri Lanka, where he stood repentant on one foot for 1,000 years,
leaving a large hollow mark resembling a footprint. Both the peak and the bridge are
named after this legend
Geological Survey of India (GSI) carried out a special programme called “Project
Rameswaram” that concluded that age data of corals indicate that the Rameswaram
island has evolved since 125,000 years ago.
Archaeologists have found evidence of human settlements in Sri Lanka ranging back
an incredible 500 000 years (or, according to more conservative estimates 125 000
years). There is evidence of modern human man residing in Sri Lanka as far back as
34 000 BC.
Sri Lanka also features subterranean cave systems which inhabited people. Evidence
was found for human habitation in complex cave and underground tunnels as far back
as 2700 BC. Buddhists, who arrived later, turned these habitations into Temples:
I mention this because just like the pre-flood and post-flood myths from China, South
America and the Middle East, Hindu Mythology, Tamil Mythology and Sri Lankan
Mythology mention subterranean dwellers, as well as Giants that lived in pre-flood
times. Mahasona is the name of an ancient Sinhalese (Sri Lankan) Giant who later
become a demon in folklore.

3. Finally, what Tamil Nadu is best known for are the most ancient "skyscrapers" in the
world. Believe it or not, there are more than 33000 !) of these scattered across the land
and some of them are thousands of years old. What even more ancient ideas where
they based on? Finally, if you are still smirking about tales of sunken cities and lost
civilizations, read this BBC article:
9000 year old sunken city found off the coast of India
I would appreciate help in the process of gathering more information and facts about
the Tamil, about Sri Lanka, about their sunken cities and lost civilizations and about
their mythology.