Deep beneath the sea, off the coast of Indonesia, a discovery is challenging long-held beliefs about early human life in Southeast Asia. In a stretch of ocean between the islands of Java and Madura, scientists have uncovered the remnants of what they describe as the first underwater hominin fossil site ever found in the region. What they believe they’ve found is more than a collection of fossils—it may be the first physical evidence of the prehistoric continent known as Sundaland, a landmass that once connected much of Southeast Asia during the Pleistocene epoch.
The discovery centers around two skull fragments identified as belonging to Homo erectus, an early ancestor of modern humans. According to ScienceDirect, The bones, buried for more than 140,000 years beneath layers of silt and sand, were recovered from the Madura Strait during marine sand mining operations in 2011. But it wasn’t until recently that researchers, led by archaeologist Harold Berghuis from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, confirmed the age and species of the remains.
A Chance Find Yields Thousands of Fossils
The breakthrough came as workers near Surabaya, the provincial capital of East Java, were dredging sediment from the seabed. During reclamation activities, they discovered fossilized remains that included over 6,000 specimens of vertebrates. The site, preserved by the dense accumulation of sand and marine deposits, revealed a surprising array of species: Komodo dragons, buffalo, deer, and a now-extinct genus of elephant-like herbivore known as Stegodon, which once stood more than 13 feet tall.
Among the remains were two human skull fragments—one frontal, one parietal. Their morphology closely resembled Homo erectus fossils previously found at the Sambungmacan site in Java. The fossils were dated using Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL), a method that determines when sediment was last exposed to sunlight. Researchers concluded the valley and its contents date to between 162,000 and 119,000 years ago.
Evidence of Life Along a Lost River
In addition to the skeletal remains, geological analysis revealed the buried outline of a river system once part of the ancient Solo River, which likely flowed eastward across what is now the Sunda Shelf. According to sedimentary records, this river supported a vibrant fluvial ecosystem during the late Middle Pleistocene. The valley where the fossils were found had once been home to a diverse mix of herbivores and predators, including species of deer whose bones and teeth were found scattered throughout the area.
These details provide rare insight into a region that was eventually submerged by rising sea levels between 14,000 and 7,000 years ago. Scientists estimate that melting glaciers from the last Ice Age raised ocean levels by over 120 meters, drowning the low-lying plains of Sundaland and severing the connections between the Southeast Asian mainland and its islands.
Signs of Butchery Suggest Advanced Hunting
Further analysis of the animal bones revealed distinct cut marks—evidence, researchers say, of deliberate butchery. These markings suggest that early hominins in the region employed tools to hunt and process large animals. “This period is characterized by great morphological diversity and mobility of hominin populations in the region,” Berghuis said. The findings indicate that the ancient population adapted to their environment using relatively advanced techniques for the time.
Fossils of antelope-like species, which generally prefer open grasslands, support the idea that this submerged landscape resembled a savanna more than a dense jungle. The presence of large herbivores and deer further suggests that the area provided ample food sources for both animals and early humans.
The Expanding Footprint of Homo erectus
The skull fragments recovered from the Madura Strait extend the known range of Homo erectus in Southeast Asia. These early humans are known for their taller, more upright stature, longer legs, and shorter arms—features that brought them closer to modern human proportions. Their presence in Sundaland offers new perspectives on early human migration and adaptation across the region’s shifting landscapes.
What began as an accidental discovery by sand miners has become a pivotal moment in the study of early human history in Asia. By combining archaeological, geological, and paleoenvironmental methods, researchers are uncovering a lost chapter of human evolution—one that has remained hidden beneath the sea for millennia.
There is no way you found this bunch hogwash BS because there is absolutely no homo erected !!!!! There is no human life or city 150,000 years!!! This lie will be taught to our children in schools in America!!!!! People teach your children the truth of GOD ALMIGHTY so read your Bible to them now teach them everyday because people are throwing horrific lies to take GOD ALMIGHTY JESUS OUR SAVOIR HOLY SPIRIT !!!! Those of you teaching this stop repent ask forgiveness except JESUS CHRIST THE ONLY WAY TO COVER SINS OK PLEASE DONT BELIEVE LIES OF DEVILS WE WANT YOU TO GO TO HEAVEN!!!!
Read the Bible seriously, are all scientists ignorant it happened because of the Flood 40 days and 40 night’s not from rising oceans from glacier melt. No big bang theory either and we didn’t come from monkeys. Noah built the Ark and all the wicked people at that time with other species of animals were all drowned by the great flood evidence is everywhere. Learn the truth Atheiests
Because there was climate change. Colima ate change has been around since the dawn of time,our time is no different.
Because there was climate change since the dawn of time. Our time is no different. Why do you think they find these sunken cities from hundreds of thousands of years. Think about 10,000 years ago,no pollution,no carbon emissions. The only thing that was happening was a few campfires and some volcanoes going off. Yet the ice sheet that engulfed part of our country was high as 2 to 3 Empire State buildings,yet it receded back up into Canada and formed the Great Lakes and has continued to recede to this day!…
The people commenting here, Karen innate, are mentally ill…..
Comments are so biased on this thread its hilarious you can believe in science, and God at the same time it doesnt have to be one way or another im sure if the holy books were writin in todays time theyd be more accurate due to them being writen by humans..anyways this discovery is massive and proves once again why Graham Hancock is out ahead of this with more to be revieled
“Crickets!”…you’re on the wrong threat…Religion is 2 doors down and to the Right. Js
Why do you all feel so threatened? Isn’t your almighty, all knowing, all powerful and loving invincible God not capable of maintaining his authenticity? Or do you need to make sure you help him out and preach like a beach?
The Bible does NOT refute science. (I’ve read it and continue to study it. Have you?!) God exists. Science exists. They are NOT incompatible. Think. For yourself. Don’t let others, even if they are your pastor, tell you what to think. Jesus wants you to think. Science is taught in public school. The Bible is not and for good reason. ‘nuf said.
Well it does state that there were empires here and it definitely shows there were. Under the seas even the yr long sand storm it tells us . So yes there are cities under the sand also. Our GOD destroyed heaven and earth and He will do it again as He’s stated. He is forever so why would anyone think we are the first but of many of His experiments of love. The universe is infinity. It states He voided heaven and earth out an will do it again.
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The comments are funny — the picture looks misleading.
Something something, Graham Hancock was right, something something.
Divine creation includes what happened. We have evidence. It took 4 B years. Does that matter to almighty God? God takes care at every step.
The Power of Islaam: The world that we’re on’s not that old; it hasn’t reached two million years.
AND!! Human beings come from Prophet Adam and his wife Eve. They are our original Parents.
The rest of this website’s information is false plus over exaggerated. Maybe spend more time gardening.
These comments got me rolling. As a person of faith, I personally believe humans were created by God. But I also love science and I personally believe that what the Bible says can be proven scientifically accurate. They both can agree with what the other says. So to the people yelling in the comments, spewing that people who don’t read the Bible are dumb mumbo jumbo, stop. No one wants to hear that.
Thank you, it is sad to know some people, made in the same good image, wonderfully and uniquely don’t know how to distinguish themselves from animals. The choice is ours, however, claiming animals as ancestors shows the hold the loveless devil has on the weak.
Great article. Hard to read with constantly popping in ads and videos. Stop doing that please
Whew, guess someone left the booby hatch door open again. To think that they are otherwise normal…
It looks like a shrine of depths from genshin impact but just edited in AI to look as if it’s in real life , absolute nonsense article
There is evidence that the Bible is just a book. There was life before boom was even written. Americans are so mislead by their government. There was no God who created it was evolution that got us here.
Ummm…. 🤔 What in the actual f are y’all smoking? Pass it my way!!! 🚬
I think God/Allah/Bhagwan u ca n a name to Creater. We do believe that Universe is expanding and all the system is on automation. Human is gripping automation and ultimately it destroy most of the population in future war. Remaining will again enjoy stone age. I do believe on A Creater as nothing can happen without Power
All these Christian cultists salty as heck lmao
Simply leave what is beneath the ocean and focus on what really matters. Real people, men, women and children are being brutally slaughtered in Gaza and other parts of the world. Try to stop that type of cannibalism, we will not be answerable for what is or was beneath the ocean or above the skies. But we will be asked what we did to save and protect our fellow human beings.
Total confusion don’t talk about things you have no control over
God is Not Real get over it.
The Earth’s core stopped rotating, caused by it massively heating up from no protection from the sun, no more ozone. Bubbles of black air are forming on the ocean floors, like a pot boiling water forming small bubbles. Old volcanoes are melting back down. The magnetic polarity no longer exists and is about to flip. Says the Bible?
Being a biblical scholar and a psychologist, I can attest to two scholarly opinions regarding Creation. Both have validity. The Old Earth Theory and the New/Young Earth Theory. I don’t understand why Christians feel their entire belief system is being challenged by anthropology and archeology.
The Bible is not a complete compendium of events and how they transpired. Read Genesis, actually read it. Two different Creation narratives exist, which one is correct. G-d changes his mind multiple times in the Bible. This means G-d is not 100% infallible.
Carbon is a valid scientific test as is the testing utilized in this discovery. In Genesis, prior to the flood, the author makes references to “the sons of God” going into “the daughters of man” and creating a hybrid. These hybrids, in the Bible are referred to as, word for word, “heroes of old, men of great reknown.”
This city has evidence of homoerectus, yet there is no direct lineage going from Homosapiens to any prior iteration. The missing link is just that. Missing. Theory of Evolution. If someone is so insecure in their faith that the groundbreaking discovery of a new “civilization” that lived on a continent long theorized to exist calls your own faith into question, then maybe selfexamination is required
As our technology gets better and better i have a feeling that continental shelfs, previously exposed land prior to the flood/end of the Ice Age, are going to become more and more prevalent. There also exists a submerged continent to the East of Australia larger than Australia.
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Romans 1:21
God provided everything attesting to His existence, including this discovery. Man has rejected Him, which is why man perpetuates lies.
Praise the Lord Jesus for His creative power and Sovereign Judgment.
God is awesome! He’s already told us he is beyond human understanding so save yourself the grief and stop trying to figure him and his creation. Just observe the wonder mysteries and praise him for your gift of awareness! Amen!
Well, some human life did exist millions of years ago due to Adam and Eve, also, Cain’s descendants are, I believe, they are neanderthals or cavemen. Also, another thing, don’t let science get in the way of your religion, being Islamic, Christian, or even Jewish. Also, the great flood caused a lot of humans and animals to die by drowning, so it means there will be human remains in the sea. Also, Noah and his family repopulated the world after that. Also, evolution was not even invented until Darwin made it in the 1850s. So, it does not even make it 100% true.
Also, do we see monkeys turn into humans nowadays? No. Do we see fish walking on land very much? No. So, it does not make it 100% true.
But i do like learning stuff.
How long is one day in God’s time
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After the discovery of Dwarka, city of lord Krishna. We know so less. There were significant civilization existed before younger dryas. It’s very difficult to find archaeological evidence 5000 to 10000 years old and more. So, it doesn’t mean it never existed. Hindu civilization already decoded story till 50000 to 60000 years old tgrough our scriptures.
The Holy Bible is for teaching and for us humans to obey the teachings .When Jesus reads the book of life to you just remember he will tell you he does not know you! Then in a blink of eye you will not be no more! Like you never existed you fool people get your self in order now .OR say- la – by by! You see I have more then faith “I” BELIEVE & I DON’T CARE TO MOVE ANY MOUNTAINS LIKE WHAT JESUS TOLD PETER HAD ONE GRAIN OF A MUSTER SEED HE COULD MOVE MOUNTAIN ‘S “LIKE “I” SAY I HAVE BE ON FAITH & PEOPLE THAT SEE SPACE SHIP’S ALLEN’S THERE THAT FALLEN ANGELS THAT WANT MISLEAD YOU DEMONDS ARE OUT THERE SO EATHER YOU FOLLOW BIBLE TEACHING OR YOU YOU KEEP GOING THE WAY YOU SEE FIT . “I” WILL SAY THE SAME “I ” DO NOT KNOW YOU !!!
God is the Engineer of the Universe and the scientists are like the the street Mechanics trying to know the working of the system. Trying to find fault with God is like the mechanic trying to comment the knowledge of the Engineer.
Karen, it doesn’t have to be one or the other. God is eternal and time is irrelevant to him. You are preaching in tune with Satan’s Trump .
I believe in God. I believe in the Devil. I believe they are in all of us. The wonderful things we do. The horrible things we do. God to me is LOVE. The DEVIL to me is hate. Our time here is minute compared to
Eternity .Everything that is alive evolves over time.Humans of this time
And most likely all time
Are there own worse enemy . Keep things simple
And live in the minute for soon you will be forgotten.
Hey!! Be like Rodney King and “Can’t we all just get along?”
If he is still alive we need to send him to Congress! Then again they’d probably plant drugs on him and lock him up.
By the way in biblical times satan or the devil was actually “Nero” and the Jews feared his return. The anti-Christ was termed for Nero. They were right he has returned but now under the disguise of no other then Donald J. Trump your Chief of all things misleading and evil with a smile on his face. He is gifted with the silver tongue and uses it well. There was another person that did that as well. His name was Adolf Hitler. Don’t you see it’s all a façade? And you so called Christians just follow him. Read the Bible again it doesn’t say stop helping your fellow man if it costs too much money and give tax cuts to wealthy millionaires with hardened selfish hearts. Or did they just revise the Bible so it soots your purposes instead? There’s a lot of God fearing hypocrites in this world but remember your hearts will be weighed, and too many Peter Popoff’s. So many different religions with all basically the same story. It’s all the same God the Creator but different cultures perceive him differently. It was easier for them to understand or relate too but it’s one in all the same. In every culture and religion the flood etc. With examples on how to live the right way and be a better person. Follow them.
I find it amazing that we continue to find more puzzle pieces of Our History at an increasing rate!
It is ashame that the Smithsonian Museum has collected evidence of Our History and has destroyed a great part it.
I hope the collections of historical artifacts that now lie in many Smithsonian Museum (28) Warehouses will assist in piecing our
History of all races that have lived or visited this Planet 🌎 🌍
Earth.
All:
I am a Born Again Christian who believes in Creation. However, I am not that Narrow-Minded to think and take the Bible as the final word on anything except maybe Salvation. Do y’all really think that God, is that Finite, that He wouldn’t have allowed other Civilizations before Noah? Or maybe, these were from Satan’s group. Nobody really, really knows, unless you were there. I believe that our Bible is sacred, no doubt, but I also believe our Lord is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent at any time, anywhere. I refuse to believe that God would limit himself, and us, to what Man has always been capable of.
I am on a soap box.
Perception is reality.
Anger is the furnace,
from which your heart lays.
Too many seek war.
Justice is in all.
Wings to push,
hearts to pull
People the Bible has been changed so many times. Which one u talking about? You believe in God and a “devil” man has created. Original Lucifer was not a devil. Keep up people for one for two where the f*** did religion come to play when finding bones? We find new species all the time this is nothing new. Keep ur religion to yourself, people read this for facts of new findings not a Bible study. Get over yourself.
The Bible has been changed so many time which book you talking about? U believe Lucifer is a devil well originally he was a blue angel people. This is a site about discovering new species that y we view it. When the f*** did religion come in. Get over yourself.
People are so severely brainwashed it is sad and scary at the same time remove yourselves from the shells and limits that these tetrahedrons haveave you in
The only GOD worth knowing has to be Totally Transcendent from evil and has the ability to make Himself know by supernatural means. He is the God Who is There and Has Spoken, through man and Creation. The Creation screams n speaks of the Designer-Creator, when observed, as does a car, ship, or skyscraper. The Original Creation has been damaged n cursed. It was cursed by Sin. It was severely damaged by the Great flood. What we see, is little like the original, in many ways. Lots is buried, to discover that things happened Just As He said by Divine, supernatural, inspiration. For centuries science claimed the Bible false n then… Ohhh n Mt Saint Helen blew evolution to pieces. The observation of that, By their “laws”, claims the results, millions of yrs. olde! // Evolution has the same problem to explain of origins! How do you design by chance. They claim Time is the answer, yet we know , Time produces corruption without a force to stop it! Time is not a designer, only an excuse to replace a Designing Transcendent GOD, who would require subjection! That absolite would logically require subjection! Soooo the end of evolution, based upon its assumptions as well, is chaos,,, and, morality is an answer that can never be defined by an absolute, only a good suggestion by everybody. // We know we Are here. The question is, how do you want to believe we got here!? Chance leads to chaos! Design leads to searching. Science can lead to any result, depending upon your presuppositions. // We also find organisms, assumed to be millions of yrs old, n not decayed. How fascinating when food in my fridge roots in weeks! // Happy living, n dieing by your philosophy. We Allllllll do!
Dear Bible Thumpers:
What’s one day to God?
You’re all talking about the Great Flood and Noah’s Ark.
That’s great. Here’s the problem, God created the Heavens and the Earth. On the seventh day he rested. That being said, we don’t have a clue as to how old the Earth is due to the fact that, if God is an infinite being then the question presents itself as, how long is ONE DAY to an infinite being?
There were MANY animals in the Garden of Eden. I’m sure there were some that we have no clue about. The question is, were some of those creations what we now call dinosaurs?
We’ve read all about the nephilim. Welp! There are no fossils to either prove or disprove their existence. If there are, science hasn’t “found” them yet so, to say that there was no homo-erectus is just foolishness.
I don’t know why I chose to read these comments, but I did. To those who narrowly and blindly believe what anyone or anything tells them, you are missing the whole point of your existence. You should seek to find your own truths in the many historical records that exist. You should WANT to seek them. Regurgitating ideas or quotes from one source is completely ignorant and asinine and your time would be better spent learning. As a lifelong seeker of truth, the one thing I’ve determined is that I need to spend the rest of the time I have in study and reflection. It is your DUTY to do the same and not to shove half -baked ideaologies down others throats. Take a timeout and grab a book before you hurt yourself.
Headline — “Beneath the Ocean Floor”
How far did they dig under the ocean floor before they found this stuff?
Yikes, who let the Bible thumpers have Internet access? Haha
I think the bible devotees posting here are a cry for us to stop underfunding and devaluating our educational system. Education starts in the home. People need to read more than a bible. Cult thinking is leading our once bright culture into darkness.
Couple things….Someone said Boobies!!
And Yes! PUFF! PUFF! PASS! Please….WTAF is wrong with you all??