150 LARGE TEMPLES OF 4800 B.C. UNEARTHED IN GERMANY, AUSTRIA & SLOVAKIA COULD BE JAIN TEMPLES
News published on the 11th June, 2005 in U.K. press:  London : Europe ’s oldest civilization has been discovered by archeologists across the continent, the independent said on Saturday. More than 150 large temples, constructed between 4800 B.C. & 4600 B.C. , have been unearthed in fields & cities in Germany , Austria & Slovakia , predating the pyramids in Egypt by some 2000 years. The network of temples, made of earth & wood, were constructed by religious people whose economy may have been based on livestock farming. Excavations have taken over the past three years but discovery is so new that the civilization has not yet been named.

Shri L.M. Singhvi in his book, in relation to past archeological discoveries also corroborates the above findings. "As noted by Pandit Sukhlal Sanghvi, during an excavation in 1949 in Cyprus , a bronze statue of first jain Tirthankar Rishabh dev was found belonging to the second millennium, cca. 1250 B.C. Recent marine archeology in the bay of Cambay threw up underwater discoveries of submerged civilizations that existed before almost all other known ancient civilizations."     Courtesy: Mr. Pankaz Chandmal Hingarh.