[Red Badger]

Remnants of Noah's Flood?

Victim of Climate Change?............................

[BenLurkin]

Ping

[pas]

King of Swamp Castle: When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that’s what you’re going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.

[rjsimmon]

Sometimes I wonder if the authors of articles such as this read their own work? To wit:

and the researchers believe that the level was far lower at the height of the Urartian society than it is today, slowly rising over time to cover parts of the city.

Are there researchers who believe that the lake level did not vary and that the people who built this castle did so underwater?

Earlier this year they announced the discovery of a Russian ship believed to have sunk in 1948.

Must be due to Global Warming. The lake waters rose faster than the vessel could compensate...

[ZOOKER]

Atlantistanbul.

Another victim of global warming.

[robroys woman]

Slightly on topic, I used to own a full sized chevy van.

[17th Miss Regt]

The residence of

"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in shimmering samite, held aloft the sword of Excalibur...."

[Ezekiel]

Tahsin Ceylan, head of the diving team on the project, first came in search of the Lake Van Monster, but uncovered a lost city instead.

[Professional]

Who builds a castle under a lake!?

[Mr. Jeeves]

Photograph it quick - before the Islamists blow it up.

[JimSEA]

There is a lot here to interest a geologist as well.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Yes, this will be cited as evidence of global warming and rising sea levels centuries ago. And will be used to say that we may see New York under water like this someday.

[Pride in the USA]

More interesting archeological information for the week.

[jerod]

Who'd of thunk it?

[mass55th]

For anyone who is interested:

"The Saint Louis Art Museum next year will present “Sunken Cities: Egypt’s Lost Worlds,” the exhibition showcasing finds from underwater archaeological expeditions of Franck Goddio and his team off the coast of Egypt in the sunken cities of Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus. The North American premiere of “Sunken Cities” will be the most significant exhibition of ancient Egyptian art undertaken in St. Louis in more than 50 years."

Here's a link to the Museum announcing the exhibit:

Sunken Cities: Egypt’s Lost Worlds, March 25 - September 9, 2018"

I live in NY State, but my son lives outside of Indianapolis, which is about 3-4 hours away from St. Louis. I'm planning on visiting him sometime during the exhibit's six-month stay, and hopefully will be able to see this collection.

The exhibit will be visiting other cities in the U.S. as well, but at this point, I don't know which other places it will be going to.

[mrsmith]

Wiki:
Urartu (Armenian: ), also known as Kingdom of Van... was an Iron Age kingdom centred on Lake Van in the Armenian Highlands.
It corresponds to the biblical Kingdom of Ararat.
... Urartu re-emerged in Assyrian inscriptions in the 9th century BC as a powerful northern rival of Assyria,

[Verginius Rufus]

The Whigs' slogan in the 1840 election was "Van, Van, is a used up man."

Martin Van Buren lost. But at least he got a lake named after him.

[blam]

[eyeamok]

Man, I didn’t know that Climate Change for burning fossil fuels caused the Sea to Rise 4000 years ago. Has AlGore responded?

[piasa]

Just wait ‘til they see the size of the goldfish

[Daffynition]