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Mystery of underwater Bali temple solved
The mystery of an ancient underwater Hindu temple “discovered†off Bali’s coast has been solved — the “temple†was built as part of a recent environmental conservation programme.
The owner of Sea Rovers Dive Centre in Bali told the Jakarta Globe that the temple site did in fact exist but that the location, named Taman Pura, (Temple Garden) was created five years ago.
Consisting of ten statues and a temple structure, the project was in addition to a number of bio-wreck dive sites and a reef conservation project funded by the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAid).
Jakarta-based Internet news portals and television stations have been running stories of the alleged archeological discovery, prompting Surya Helmi, director of the undersea archeological division at Indonesia’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism, to promise a full investigation.
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