Geologists know that there are two kinds of "lost cities" underwater: those that were made by humans, and those that weren't. The latter turns out to be the case for one such city, discovered by tourists diving off the Greek island of Zakynthos in 2014.
Shī Chéng (Chinese: 狮城, literally 'Lion City') is an ancient underwater city situated under Qiandao Lake in the Zhejiang Province of China. The city was flooded for the purpose of Industrialization by the Chinese Government in the year 1959 after a hydroelectric dam was required for the province of Zhejiang.
One kilometre out in the Mediterranean Sea, near Haifa, Israel, an ancient village lies hidden beneath the waves. It has been so well preserved by the sandy seabed that weevils sit in the grain stores, human skeletons lie undisturbed in their graves, and a mysterious stone circle still stands as it was first erected.
'with a population of 10 million, jakarta is considered by some to be the fastest-sinking city in the world and is projected to be entirely underwater by 2050. in december 2021, jarkarta was again submerged with parts of the capital 2.7m (9ft) underwater,' writes nash.
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“On average, we can assume there's one underwater heritage site for every kilometer of coastline. That means there could be 30,000 in Japan,” Sasaki says. “And even considering how many may have already been destroyed, I still estimate that there are at least 10,000.”
The Sunken City is the site of a natural landslide which occurred in the Point Fermin area of the San Pedro neighborhood of Los Angeles, starting in 1929. A slump caused several beachside homes to slide into the ocean. The development of cliffside homes and exclusive bungalows was established in the 1920s by George H.
Sinking cities is not a new phenomenon: many have sunk in the past, ending up underwater. Riverbeds, sea and ocean floors are full of once urban structures, which we now call ruins, and there will be even more in the future.
Some lost cities have been discovered by chance, and some were discovered after long searches. Some were known and written about in ancient times, leaving clues for modern archaeologists, linguists, and other scholars. Others were forgotten soon after their demise, and never known throughout history thereafter.
Using Plato's detailed account of Atlantis as a map, searches have focused on the Mediterranean and Atlantic as the best possible sites for the city. Researchers have previously proposed that Atlantis was located on the Greek island of Santorini, the Italian island of Sardinia or on Cyprus.
No written records of Atlantis exist outside of Plato's dialogues, including in any of the numerous other texts that survive from ancient Greece. Furthermore, despite modern advances in oceanography and ocean-floor mapping, no trace of such a sunken civilization has ever been found.
The largest known underwater statue is Ocean Atlas, made by sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor and placed 16 feet underwater off Nassau, the Bahamas, in 2014. The statue was designed to draw attention to the need to conserve the oceans.
Ancient submerged cities are actually quite common. Oceanside real estate has always been a hot commodity, and during the last glaciation, sea levels were much lower than they are currently. The ancient lagoon civilization off the coast of Sweden was found over 65 feet below sea level.
Pavlopetri is thought to be the oldest underwater city in history. Located on the southern coast of Lakonia in Greece, the flooding of the city is said to have taken place around 5,000 years ago. It's been an archaeological site of great value since it was discovered in 1967.
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Reports of the discovery of the ruins of Atlantis have surfaced countless times since Mavor's attempt, but no conclusive evidence of its existence has ever emerged.
But they became greedy, petty, and "morally bankrupt," and the gods "became angry because the people had lost their way and turned to immoral pursuits," Orser says. As punishment, he says, the gods sent "one terrible night of fire and earthquakes" that caused Atlantis to sink into the sea.
Plato (c. 424–328 B.C.) describes it as a powerful and advanced kingdom that sank, in a night and a day, into the ocean around 9,600 B.C. The ancient Greeks were divided as to whether Plato's story was to be taken as history or mere metaphor.