Posted on 07/19/2019 10:32:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Of interest ?
The remains of what has been described as a huge lost city may force historians and archaeologists to radically reconsider their view of ancient human history.
Marine scientists say archaeological remains discovered 36 metres (120 feet) underwater in the Gulf of Cambay off the western coast of India could be over 9,000 years old.
The vast city - which is five miles long and two miles wide - is believed to predate the oldest known remains in the subcontinent by more than 5,000 years.
The latest occupation was by Mussolini's Italian army. He launched his invasion of Greece from Albania, where he was promptly defeated. Hitler had to delay the invasion of Russia to come save his bacon.
Post-WWII the place was very weird. IIRC, the commie regime was allied with the Chicoms before the fall of communism.
Their dictator, Enver Hoxha, was a real piece of work, he believed he was the only true Communist left, everyone else was a "revisionist".
Oh ALBANIA not Alabama ...
Still later Albania purged all non muslims in a forced exodus.
Float on, flotsam, float on crew....
In an article I think on the RPM website, it said that the late dictator Hoxha prohibited scuba gear, claiming it was cryptocapitalist or some such crap -- but he was worried that people would swim underwater to flee his dictatorship. One unintended consequence of the policy is that the many wrecks were never found until now.
In hindsight I regret that Hoxha’s health didn’t permit him to suffer Ceausescu’s fate. The leftist morons who today advocate “true” or “pure” socialism ought to have to see what those same ideas did to Albania, which at one time was the poorest nation in Europe. I think that distinction may have been passed to Belorussia, another socialist hell hole.
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