"An ancient Egyptian city found 6.5 km off of modern Egypt's coastline..."(LINK)
Thanks for posting this article. Look forward to all articles on archaeological finds.
Awesome....
Very; thanks for posting. I think the name of the site is Sunny Skys, rather than Sunken Skys. Come to think of it though. . .
SunkenCiv - Ping.
If the city was underwater wouldn’t everyone be wet all the time....?
I’d like to know how an entire city came to be inundated like this. Obviously the sea level rose, but how? Sport Utility Chariots belching CO2?
The pics are worth seeing!!!
This is not just any find... the statues and the massive tablets look almost NEW. I’ve never seen anything that old preserved so well.
Can’t wait to get some high res pics of those after they are brought up.
And that bronze statue... much of that stuff dates BC. Can you believe the quality of it? It’s preserved condition really shows that we underestimate what their artisans were capable of. I mean, just LOOK at that thing.
Thanks for the link. That was great.
For those of us today who follow and learn from history and not try to re write it, nice!
"An ancient Egyptian city found 6.5 km off of modern Egypt's coastline..."(LINK)
Would be nice if the article explained what causes a city to slip into a sea. What is the possibility of a modern city doing the same thing today? It just happened 1,400 years ago. Less than a minute ago in the earth’s history.
Al Gore finds proof of man made global warming when, “An Ancient City Is Discovered Underwater. What They Found Will Change History Forever”
How do you change history? Is it done by executive order?
Paging Dr Daniel Jackson...
That 1.9m tablet pictured at the link looks like polished “Jet Black” granite with ‘skin cut’ letters.
I am in the monument trade. People today get tomb stones in that style, and much more than once, I have come upon such a person while he was in the middle of re-thinking the wisdom of such shallow letters.
They ask me if I can cut the letters deeper. I say “yes, but then you’d have to pay for it and you would not like that.” They then invariably say ‘But look how SHALLOW they are, won’t they disappear with time’?
That’s when I laugh. I laugh and I laugh and I laugh...
Anyone remember about those “ancient cities” off the coast of Peru found back in 1966? There were reports of them in several real newspapers back in March of 1966.
I’ve never seen anything mentioned of them again.
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I think Gobekli Tepe is more important.
Heck, it was already buried under the dust ten thousand years before Romulus and Remus changed their diapers!
http://canadajournal.net/science/egypt-heracleion-sea-mediterranean-1200-years-photo-1499-2013/
Has short underwater video.
“like the Rosetta Stone, those steles found beneath the waters of Aboukir Bay are inscribed in Greek and Egyptian... It appears that Heracleion faded in importance in the later classical period, eclipsed by its neighbouring city of Alexandria, which became the capital of Egypt in 312BC.
Still, Heracleion lingered on, later under Roman control, until it slipped into its watery grave some time in the 6th or 7th century AD.”
Amazing stuff!!
Amazing.