1500 year old church in the shape of a basilica, ping.
To those of you educated in public schools -
Yes - the land mass of modern day Turkey was a Christian nation for 1500+ years.
It was conquered by islamic armies where the Christian population was either killed, enslaved or treated as 3rd class citizens until they converted...
This truly is Sunken Civ.
Always in the last place you look.
Ping!
What am I missing here? The picture at the first link shows apparently this same 10-foot-underwater building outline (as above at FR) 30-foot off shore. Surely it didn’t take those inhabitants any time at all to have seen this under-shallow-water outline and had done so for generations.
What’s up with this newfound discovery claim?
HF
wow...
Wish they’d found that when I was living there! That would have been an awesome site to go visit. One of the hotels in Pamukale, Turkey, was built over the Roman ruins and the pool is in the midst of broken columns, statues, etc. We did not stay at that hotel, but those who did were allowed to swim among the ruins! Very cool!
So much to see in Turkey! LOVED living there!
It’s possible that the lake levels have lowered over the years which made the church more visible than it might have been a few years ago, and that would have nothing to do with ‘Global Warming’.
I wonder if they practiced baptism by immersion....
I kid, I kid. :-)
Those crazy Turks (who renamed Constantinople to New Amsterdam, did I get that piece of musical history right?), and now we learn they built a church under a lake!
Interesting and I wasn’t aware that basilicas were a standard design of the Roman government.
Good find. Can’t wait to hear and see what they find there.
I guess the parishioners all used snorkels?
Turkish experts on Byzantium-—laughable... considering the Muslim Turks have burned bombed looted flooded destroyed every thing Christian they could find including the original Christian inhabitants of Asia Minor. Iznik is really Nicaea where another Basilica was dynamited by the Islamic hordes under Kemal in 1923: The Dormition of the Holy Mother, where the Holy Fathers of the Church wrote the Nicaean Creed in 325 AD.
Some googling revealed a severe earthquake in Iznik in 1065 that destroyed or damaged some buildings. I wonder if it sank into the lake then?