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They found a Sunken Civ?..............
“Archeologists Discover The Oldest Sunken City In The World” found so far.
I’m pretty sure it’s not real unless it’s in Homer’s Catalogue of Ships ....
Haha, I saw that image you posted and I thought “my gosh, that’s really well preserved…” And then I watched the video and realized it was a diver swimming in front of an artist’s conception… :)
Yeah…I felt a bit sheepish!
A new twist on likes of the epic of Gilgamesh, as this is too recent for that. So it would have to be subsidence that sank it, but 15m is a LOT. Santorini?
How do they know it’s the oldest?
I can’t wait until they discover the SUV’s hidden inside this city and caused the sea level to rise.
Superb Quality Video....
Thanks
OMG Climate change. You think they all stayed in that building and drowned or did they MOVE?
I’m a nit picker on precise language:
The title: “............Oldest Sunken City in the world....”
Should be “Archeologists Find the Oldest Yet Discovered Sunken City in the World”:
the key words being “yet discovered” so as to not preclude archeologists likely, in time, finding other, as old or older, as yet undiscovered sunken cities.
It’s the oldest discovered, so far, which, in time may or may not make it the oldest sunken city.
They “find the oldest yet discovered”, they cannot say they “discovered the oldest”.
Anyone remember Feb and March of 1966 when the news papers reported sunken cities found off the coast of Peru?
I remember it well. Nothing since has been reported about it.
As usual, many of the comments would be mooted by bothering to watch the video first. In the narrator’s words, ...
“...[T]hought to be the oldest submerged city in the world, ...”