The Lost Continent Beneath Southeast Asia's Seas

Twenty thousand years ago, Southeast Asia wasn't a scatter of islands. It was one vast continent — bigger than India — connecting Sumatra, Borneo, Java, and the Malay Peninsula into a single landmass called Sundaland. Then the ice melted, the seas rose, and an entire world disappeared beneath the waves. This is the story of the sunken continent that may have shaped human migration, mythology, and the very geography of a region 300 million people now call home.