Connect with us

Hi, what are you looking for?

Ancient

Secrets Of Ancient Underwater City Pavlopetri Revealed

Secrets Of Ancient Underwater City Pavlopetri Revealed 11

MessageToEagle.com

Once a long time ago, this unique place was inhabited by an advanced civilization. Then, something happened and the city vanished consumed by the sea.

Some say this is the world’s oldest city and the underwater ruins are remains of the legendary city of Atlantis.

The city of Pavlopetri, underwater off the coast of southern Laconia in Greece, is about 5000 years old.

This underwater site is unique.

An entire town is resting underwater, including streets, buildings, courtyards, and tombs.  It has at least 15 buildings submerged in three to four meters of water. The walls are made of uncut aeolianite, sandstone and limestone blocks, and  were built without mortar. The remains cover an area of approximately 50,000 square metres.

Pavlopetri was presumably once a thriving harbour town where the inhabitants conducted local and long distance trade throughout the Mediterranean –  its sandy and well-protected bay would have been ideal for beaching Bronze Age ships. As such the site offers major  new insights into the workings of Mycenaean society. It was discovered in 1967 by Nicholas Flemming and mapped in 1968 by a team of archaeologists from Cambridge.

Back in 2009, scientist made here stunning discoveries of late Neolithic pottery.

Marine geo-archaeologist Dr Nic Flemming of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton said: “The discovery of Neolithic pottery is incredible!

Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading.

It means that we are looking at a port city  which may be 5000-6000 years old, with trade goods and wrecks nearby showing some of the very earliest days of seafaring trade in the Mediterranean.

Secrets Of Ancient Underwater City Pavlopetri Revealed 12

Diver over walls at Pavlopetri – Image credit & copyright: Jon Henderson

Secrets Of Ancient Underwater City Pavlopetri Revealed 13

Underwater ruins of Pavlopetri – Image credit & copyright: Jon Henderson

What we’ve got here is something which is two or even three thousand  years older than most of the submerged cities which have been studied. And it is uniquely complete.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryppM4O-qA4]

We have almost the complete town plan,  the main streets and all of the domestic buildings. We can study how it was used as a port, where ships came in and how trade was managed.”

Secrets Of Ancient Underwater City Pavlopetri Revealed 14

CGI representation of a Pavlopetri building © BBC

Secrets Of Ancient Underwater City Pavlopetri Revealed 15

Jon Henderson underwater, in situ, with CGI representation of 4,000-year-old three-legged pot. Image credit & copyright: Jon Henderson

Secrets Of Ancient Underwater City Pavlopetri Revealed 16

CGI representation of Pavlopetri view. © BBC

Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading.

A group of underwater archeologists, led by Jon Henderson have done their best to bring this mysterious sunken city back to life again.

With help of latest technology they have rebuilt the city. This kind of reconstruction gives us a remarkable chance to travel back in time and see  what Pavlopetri could have looked like 5,000 years ago.

Comments

You May Also Like

Ancient

According to many legends and official history, the first man on Earth appeared about 200,000 years ago, at minimum. A huge gap of time, don’t...

Ancient

These stunning images show the underground 18-storey city discovered by chance by a man renovating his home. In 1963, a Turkish dad knocked down...

Planet Earth

Since the dawn of history, human societies have ascribed sacred status to certain places. Areas such as ancestral burial grounds, temples and churchyards have...

Cryptozoology

Naomi Leach Daily Mail, UK   There is no question that the sea holds mysteries and inhabitants beyond our imagination, that we are yet to...

Ancient

by John Black, Ancient Origins According to conventional archaeology, writing wasn’t invented until 3000 to 4000 BC in Sumeria.  However, an artefact was found...

Ancient

A wealth of human history lies submerged in ancient cities at the bottoms of lakes, seas and oceans of the world. Some of these...

Ancient

By Dr. Paul Schliemann, via Atlantean Gardens; Grandson of Dr. Heinrich Schliemann, New York American, October 20, 1912. This article and the accompanying illustrations,...

Mysteries

What’s causing the eerie noise detected deep under the Atlantic ocean? And who invented the mysterious computer discovered in an ancient Roman shipwreck? We don’t...

Advertisement