A computer generated image of what Pavlopetri might have looked like
Posted on 10/08/2011 7:38:17 AM PDT by decimon
Semi-detached houses with gardens, clothes drying in the courtyards, walls and well-made streets - Pavlopetri epitomises the suburban way of life. Except that it's a Bronze Age port, submerged for millennia off the south-east coast of Greece.
This summer it became the first underwater city to be fully digitally mapped and recorded in three dimensions, and then brought back to life with computer graphics.
The result shows how much it has in common with port cities of today - Liverpool, London, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo or Shanghai - despite the fact that its heyday was 4,000 years ago.
Covering an area of about eight football pitches, Pavlopetri appears as a series of large areas of stones indicating building complexes, among which a network of walls can be traced.
It is a city of well-built roads lined by detached and semi-detached two-storey houses. There are larger apparently public buildings and evidence of a complex water management system involving channels and guttering.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Petri dish ping.
They added some Atlantis speculation to add spice.
The daily commute sucked.
I like how they left the bicycle out in the driveway! ;-)
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No grafitti?? I ain’t buyin’ it........
Driveways. Yeah, I knew something was missing. And you'd think the lawns would be nicer with all that donkey scat.
Race to preserve the world’s oldest submerged town [ Pavlopetri in Greece ]
PhysOrg.com | May 11th, 2009 | University of Nottingham
Posted on 05/15/2009 6:00:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2251503/posts
Lost Greek city that may have inspired Atlantis myth gives up secrets
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/oct/16/lost-greek-city-atlantis-myth
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/maps_and_graphs/2009/10/16/GreeceLostWorld.gif
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Helike, ancient Greek city swallowed by the sea
Destruction of Helike | October 17, 2000 | John Noble Wilford
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Sailors may have cruised the Med 14,000 years ago
Reuters | Wednesday, July 18, 2007 | Michele Kambas
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Sea gives up Neanderthal fossil [ dredged up from the North Sea ]
BBC | Monday, June 15, 2009 | Paul Rincon
Posted on 06/15/2009 8:19:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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THX THX.
He was a good friend.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Throckmorton
The Sea Remembers: Shipwrecks and Archaeology from Homer’s Greece to the Rediscovery of the Titanic, ed. Peter Throckmorton (New York: Smithmark Publishers, 1987) ISBN/ISSN: 1555840930 Library of Congress: 87-14273
Oldest Known Shipwreck Yields Bronze Age Cargo. by Peter Throckmorton, National Geographic 121.5 (May 1962): 696-71
The Lost Ships: An Adventure in Underwater Archaeology. by Peter Throckmorton, Boston and Toronto, 1964. ISBN/ISSN: 0864380445
The economics of treasure hunting with real life comparisons, by Peter Throckmorton, 1990
Surveying in Archaeology, by Peter Throckmorton (Aris & Phillips Ltd - Jan 1, 1969) ISBN 085668063X ISBN 978-0856680632
Diving for Treasure, by Peter Throckmorton, published simultaneously by The Viking Press, New York City, and Penguin Books Canada Limited (1977) ISBN/ISSN: 0670274496 Library of Congress: 77-6689
History from the Sea, edited by Peter Throckmorton, ISBN/ISSN: 0864380445
Shipwrecks and Archaeology - The Unharvested Sea, published simultaneously by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, and Little, Brown & Company (Canada) Limited, Toronto (1970), Library of Congress: 76-79373
Peter Throckmorton, Archeologist Of Ancient Shipwrecks, Dies at 61 ...www.nytimes.com › COLLECTIONS › CARGO SHIPCached - Similar - Add to iGoogle
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11 Jun 1990 – Peter Throckmorton, an underwater archeologist who located and ... The Unharvested Sea’’ (1970) and ‘’The Sea Remembers’’ (1987). ...
Thanks for those images of what it actually looks like today. I was about to bite on a real estate ad that said,
“Pavlopetri—spacious 2 story estate with sea view. Completely surrounded by stone fence for privacy. Near temples and schools. Hurry, this won’t last long.”
Wow! THanks decimon!
You're welcome. It's amazing if the town really looked like that.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
Hey Bill...check the date on that ad...I'll bet it's already taken.
Must have had cable....no antennas!
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