Plato described Atlantis as a highly advanced city, ringed by concentric walls, which flourished 9,000 years before his own time. Most of what we know comes from the Greek philosopher Plato, who wrote two books about Atlantis, the Timaeus and the Critias. Philosophers and scientists throughout history have been drawn to one of the greatest mysteries of the sea, the legend of the lost city of Atlantis. “ Ten million square miles of land was flooded all around the world. That’s roughly the size of Europe and China added together just rubbed from the record They just disappear from the story.” – Graham Hancock Artists depiction of the location of Atlantis according to Plato. Huge areas were lost to the sea, rich coastlines were submerged by the increasing amount of water levels. “You have to envisage a world in which there are two-mile-deep ice caps sitting on top of northern Europe and North America, in which are accumulated enormous quantities of water we know that this water began to melt about 21,000 years ago, and finished melting about 10,000 years ago.” – Graham Hancock Scientific theory suggests that during Earth’s last Ice Age, ocean levels were once much lower than they are today. The ocean is the lifeblood of Earth, covering more than 70 percent of the planet’s surface, driving weather, regulating temperature, and ultimately supporting all living organisms. Much remains to be learned from exploring the mysteries of the deep. In fact, to date, we have explored less than five percent of the ocean. Today we have equipment that can access areas and depths that some years ago were inaccessible to us and we could only guess what was really down there, how many amazing underwater worlds are just waiting to be found? However, in every single corner of our Globe, we will find evidence of cities that crumbled and were devoured by the ocean. There’s more than 200 known sunken cities in the Mediterranean alone and what we’re looking at are the remains of cities at a time when mainstream archaeology tells us there were no cities, anywhere in the world.Ĭovering more than 71% of the planet, the Earth’s oceans are a vast and largely unexplored mystery and even today we have trouble accessing and mapping the ocean floor. For most of recorded history, man could only guess at what lay beneath the ocean’s surface, but thanks to today’s technology we are able to explore our oceans with greater detail than ever before. Some have been found, others remain shrouded in mystery and legends. These are lost underwater worlds which hold countless secrets beneath the surface, secrets which according to many authors, promise to rewrite everything we thought we knew about history.Īll over the world, there are sunken cities. But despite this fact, all around the planet, we have found evidence of lost-sunken-ancient cities, some of them dating back to around the last ice age when ocean levels were once much lower than they are today. They believe the artifacts date from the Ptolemaic dynasty (305 to 30 B.C.E) to the time of the Byzantine Empire, which began in 330 C.E.To date, we have only have explored around 5% of the ocean ( source). The team, who plan to publish some of their findings in academic journals, found gold and bronze coins as well as jewelry including rings and earrings in Canopus. They found the remains of several buildings, expanding the city by about two-thirds of a mile. The team also found a clutch of new ports, extending their map of the city.Īrchaeologists also stretched their map of Canopus-another sunken settlement close to Heracleion. Scientists uncovered the remains of a smaller Greek temple, as well as ancient columns, pottery from the third and fourth centuries B.C.E and bronze coins from the reign of King Ptolemy II (283 to 246 BCE). The latest archaeological season revealed a new part of the city's main temple, which has been completely destroyed. Since then, numerous expeditions have returned to uncover its secrets. Researchers spent four years charting the city, known as Thonis in Egypt, according to the website of lead researcher Franck Goddio. They used a sophisticated scanning device to uncover new parts of the ancient settlements.Īlthough it was mentioned in classical texts, Heracleion lay undisturbed beneath the waters of Abu Qir Bay until it was mapped in 2000. Marine archaeologists probing sunken ancient Egyptian settlements have discovered the remains of a temple and several boats containing treasures like coins and jewelry.Įgyptian and European researchers spent two months probing the remains of Heracleion and Canopus off the coast of the Nile Delta, Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities reported.
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