Archeologists Discover The Oldest Sunken City In The World [50:12]

YouTube ^ | May 31, 2026 | Odyssey - Ancient History Documentaries

[SunkenCiv]

Just off the southern coast of mainland Greece lies the oldest submerged city in the world. It thrived for 2,000 years during the time that saw the birth of western civilisation. In this documentary, an international team of experts use cutting-edge technology to prise age-old secrets from the complex of streets and stone buildings that lie less than five metres below the surface of the ocean. State-of-the-art CGI helps to raise the city from the seabed, revealing for the first time in 3,500 years how Pavlopetri would once have looked and operated. 

Archeologists Discover The Oldest Sunken City In The World | 50:12 
Odyssey - Ancient History Documentaries | 1.03M subscribers | 1,726 views | May 31, 2026

 

pavlopetri.org

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: archaeology; bronzeage; godsgravesglyphs; greece; helladic; mycenaeans; nicholasflemming; pavlopetri

[SunkenCiv]

Seismically active region, to this day. Helike's newer and got splashed by a 373 BC tsunami combined with some subsidence that also accompanied the quake that brought the tsunami right up the Gulf of Corinth. A surviving ancient acc't describes submerged ruins up in the northern Aegean (mentioned in the book "Noah's Flood", where the authors claim it refers to a site on the Black Sea side, without any basis for the claim).

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure.

[SunkenCiv]

Good call, the subsidence may have happened due to multiple events during the past 3000 years.

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, it really sucked me right in as well. I don’t think the nanny state weirdos at Google flagged it for synthetic content though, as they do for every conservative parody video.

[SunkenCiv]

Well yeah, it made me feel special.

[SunkenCiv]

🙂😊😁😀😃😆😅😂🤣

That's the tenor who would only sing if accompanied by a handbell choir.

[SunkenCiv]

I just found a copy of Jim Nabor's hayseed version of "The Iliad". Oh wait, that's Gomer...

[Wuli]

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”.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks, but take a number. That’s an old favorite, not just in this topic, directed at someone who didn’t write the headline in the first place.

[SunkenCiv]

It was the oxen farts.

[Wuli]

It was not directed at you; it was about the “journalists” who write the headlines.

[SunkenCiv]

It’s fine, I enjoy a good quibble.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

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.

[Paal Gulli]

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, ...”

[SunkenCiv]

I don't, although I seem to remember scuttlebutt about a road that crossed some island, 🏝️ I think in the Pacific, disappeared under the waters, then reemerged on another island. Can't imagine that's true, since the surface of the Pacific is almost entirely, well, water. Probably some distorted tale from another part of the world, maybe "the Motherland of Mu" (Churchward, wasn't it?). Also, it's probably not true at all. 😁

[ThanhPhero]

The oldest city in the world yet found.

[SunkenCiv]

I’m just glad you’ve read the whole topic and not just the headline.