Tuesday, January 15, 2008

"WADA - PAAV WAS THE STAPLE DIET OF ANCIENT INDIANS: UNITED ARCHEOLOGICAL SURVEYS, Inc."

17th November, 3050:
Archeologists from the United Archeological Surveys, Inc. studying the ancient Indian civilization in the ruins of the natural deep harbor in the western region of the almost-submerged Indian subcontinent have come up with an amazing discovery. After the study of the decomposed rubbish in the sea bed, some of which is organic, archeologists have isolated one important clue to the food habits of the people who inhabited the region in the past. According to them, a bread-like preparation made with a white flour like substance was the staple diet of the region. Also, after careful scrutiny of the manuscripts unearthed from the region which were written in one of the millions of ancient Indian scripts, (this script has lines on top of every letter cluster), the linguists have discovered many references to a substance which, according to the phonetic specialists, can be pronounced as "Paav". The language has not yet been identified, but it belongs to the western region of the submerged subcontinent, as the peculiarities in the script have not been noted outside of that region. This region has interestedly, been referred to as "Maharashtra" which is ancient sanskrit for "Great nation".
Numerous other references also point out to accompaniments to the "paav" like a mashed vegetable stew, for which the linguists have not been able to identify a probable pronunciation, and presumably a rounded potato preparation pronounced the "wada".
English manuscripts have also been identified at several areas in the harbor, which call the harbor itself "Bombay", and there are also references to an ancient Anglo saxon rule here. Scientists are still working on the isolation of other facts in the harbor. One fact, which all teams of archeologists from the United Archeological Surveys, Inc. unanimously agree upon is that the staple diet indeed included "Paav" and "wada".