Posted on 11/22/2017 4:28:41 PM PST by vannrox
BOFFINS have discovered the ruins of a 3,000-year old castle underwater – and believe they have finally found what they’ve been looking for.
Archaeologists who have been searching Lake Van – the second largest lake in Turkey – for decades have discovered what they believe is a lost city.
The castle is thought to be an Iron Age relic of the Urartu civilisation – also called the Kingdom of Van – which lived in the area from the 6th to the 9th century BC.
The remarkable discovery was made by archaeologists from the Van Yüzüncü Yıl University and a team of divers.
Tahsin Ceylan, head of the diving team of the project, has been searching for the Lake Van Monster – a beast supposedly similar to the legendary Loch Ness Monster – when he found the castle.
He told the Daily Sabah: “There was a rumour that there might be something under the water but most archaeologists and museum officials told us that we won’t find anything.”
The water levels of the lake had changed over the past few thousand years.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailystar.co.uk ...
Heads up!
They once lived in the kingdom of van, which was located down by the river
Annabel Lee
Edgar Allen Poe
IT was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee.
And this maiden she lived with no other thought 5
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child
In this kingdom by the sea:
But we loved with a love that was more than love—
I and my Annabel Lee,
With a love that the wingèd seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee,
So that her high-born kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me—
Yes! that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud one night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we—
Of many far wiser than we—
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee:
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
“And who are you, the proud lord said, that I must bow so low...”
Deniers, they obviously didn’t heed the warnings of Allah Gorah, about the rising sea levels from chariot made, flat earth warming.
>>The water levels of the lake had changed over the past few thousand years.
Man-made global warming’s been going on a long time now.
When I first came here, this was all swamp.
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them.
It sank into the swamp.
So I built a second one.
And that one sank into the swamp.
So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, and then sank into the swamp.
But the fourth one stayed up. And that’s what you’re going to get, Son, the strongest castle in all of England.
If the people on the island in the lake hadn’t overcrowded it and all moved to one side then it wouldn’t have capsized.
Under the sea
Under the sea
Darling it’s better
Down where it’s wetter
Take it from me
Up on the shore they work all day
Out in the sun they slave away
While we devotin’
Full time to floatin’
Under the sea
In our little hideaway beneath the waves
Resting our head on the sea bed
In an octopus' garden near a cave..."
OH MY GOD! WATER HAS BEEN RISING FOR ALMOST 3,000 YEARS! GLOBAL WARMING HAS BEEN HAPPENING FOR LONG, LONG TIME!!!!
Thanks. I love POEtry.
His is enchantingly mellifluous.
He lived in a river down by the Van!
But I don’t want it. All I want to do is sing...
Not Atlantis. Just the place where Noah lived before the flood.
In Vanadu did Chaka Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where Crimea, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round :
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
Coke. It’s the real thing.
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