World's oldest urban settlement destroyed by tsunami discovered

Marine archaeologists surveyed an unexcavated area of the lower town using ground penetrating radar (GPR).

Addressing a press conference in Panaji, National Institute of Oceanography Director SWA Naqvi said that the archaeological site of Dholavira in the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, which was a well-planned urban settlement then, was destroyed by a tsunami around 3,450 years ago.

"This is the oldest site known to the world which we believe was hit by a tsunami," he said.