Bronze Age Greek city found underwater

Spero Forum ^ | August 27, 2015 | Martin Barillas

[SunkenCiv]

Along the shore near the site, archaeologists have found more than 6,000 objects, including fragments of the red ceramics that are characteristic of the area. Beck called the area an “archaeologist’s paradise.”

Beck points out that other civilizations were extant at the time, such as Egypt and the nascent civilizations at the islands of Crete and Santorini. The researchers expect that future research at Lambayanna will shed new light on a dense network of coastal settlements stretched throughout the Aegean Sea. Of the structures found by the researchers, Beck said “There must have been a brick superstructure above a stone foundation,” who added that “the chances of finding such walls under water are extremely low." Furthermore, he said, "the full size of the facility is not yet known. We do not know why it is surrounded by fortifications."

The walls that were found by the team are contemporaneous with the pyramids at Giza that were built around 2600-2500 B.C., as well as the Cycladic civilization (3200 to 2000 BC), at the first Minoans on the island of Crete (2700-1200 BC). However, they precede the first great Greek civilization, the Mycenaean (1650-1100 BC), by one thousand years. Obsidian blades that the researchers found at Lambayanna may have come from volcanic rock sourced at Milos: an island in the Cyclades archipelago that was inhabited as of the third millennium. The island is known for the famous statue of Aphrodite which was found there and now displayed at the Louvre.

Based on a study of the style of the pottery discovered at Lambayanna, researchers believe that the site dates to the Early Helladic II phase, said Beck, and contemporaneous with the building of the famous Egyptian pyramids.

[Fred Nerks]

In Greek mythology, Scylla[1] (/ˈsɪlə/ SIL-ə; Greek: Σκύλλα, pronounced [skýl̚la], Skylla) was a monster that lived on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite its counterpart Charybdis. The two sides of the strait were within an arrow's range of each other—so close that sailors attempting to avoid Charybdis would pass too close to Scylla and vice versa.

The strait has been associated with the Strait of Messina between Italy and Sicily.

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The Rock of Scilla, Calabria

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks FN!

[little jeremiah]

I have missed a lot by my absence from FR.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 08/31/2015. Interesting, so, re-pinging it.

(different site:) 'Ancient Greek' Ruins Actually Made By Ancient Microbes.

[ZULU]

Which enemies?

[Eagles6]

The ones that they built the fortificationd to keep out.