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An interesting collection of facts about the magnificent cities of the world, who have been on the seabed. I advise you to reading.

1. Alexandria, founded by Alexander the Great in 331, the year BC. e., Egypt





In this city there are a lot of great facilities, including Cleopatra's Palace on the island of Antirodos and neighborhoods - such as the old town Rakotis. The city was swept away from the face of the earth tidal waves and earthquakes over 1,200 years ago.







2. Heraklion, also known as Tony's, founded in the VIII century BC. e., Egypt



These ruins were discovered in 2000 by a team from the European Institute of Archaeology of the sea. Before the founding of the city of Alexandria was the most important port in Egypt. He sank in the VIII century BC.



In Heraklion there was a temple of Amun, who played an important role in the rituals associated with the dynastic succession.













3. Canopus on the eastern outskirts of modern Alexandria



The first mentions of the city date back to the VI-th century BC. e. Canopus was famous for its shrines of Osiris and Serapis. I discovered it in 1933 Tucson Prince.











4. Mystical stone structures in the waters near the island of Yonaguni, Japan, found a local diver in 1986



This 5000-year-old city sunk by an earthquake two thousand years ago. In her was found the amazing monolithic step pyramid, or perhaps it's just the natural structure of sandstone?



The town also has a castle ruins, five temples, triumphal arch and at least one big stadium. According to Masaaki Kimura, marine geologist from the University of the Ryukyus, the facilities were connected by roads and water channels.



5. Saeftinge in the southwest of the Netherlands, now known as the Sunken Earth Saeftinge



Earth around the city went under water during the floods of All Saints in 1570, the year, and the city disappeared beneath the waves in 1584, the year during the Eighty Years' War, when the Dutch soldiers were forced to destroy the last pristine levees around the city.





6. Port Royal, founded in 1518, the year and destroyed by the earthquake, tsunami and fires in 1692, the year Jamaica



At this point, many English and Dutch privateers XVI-century loved to spend their treasures, and later the city became the main base of pirates. An earthquake in 1692, the year caused the liquefaction of sand, and many of the buildings slid into the water, or simply dropped into the ground.

7. City Bailly (also known as the Campaign) and Portus Julius, homeport Western Imperial Navy, the Bay of Naples, Italy



The city has been a popular resort for the wealthy in the last decades of the Roman Republic - there were a casino and a huge swimming pool.



In VIII-century Bahia was plundered by Muslim invaders, and around 1500, the year he deserted because of malaria epidemics. Currently, most of the buildings are under water due to local volcanic activity.





8. Pavlopetri, Greece



A city built five thousand years ago, was discovered by Nicholas Flemming in 1967, but every year, archaeologists find all the new buildings.



9. The Neolithic village of Atlit Yam off the coast of Atlit, Israel



Locality lying is now eight - twelve meters below sea level, is based at between 6900 m and 6300-m-years BC. e. The city has a rectangular houses, wells and stone semicircle with seven megaliths height of 600 kg each. Also, the city found ten graves, including a woman with a child, who became victims of the earliest known cases of tuberculosis.



10. Lion City (Chi Cheng) at the bottom of the lake Qingdao, China



The city was flooded in 1959 to create an artificial lake and dam construction on the river Xi'an. All the 290 thousand residents were relocated to other settlements.



Chi Cheng was founded during the Han Dynasty (between 25 th and 200 th year). The VII-th and VIII-th centuries this place was a cultural, economic and political center, but now the city is at a depth of 27-meters.







11. Samabah lost Mayan city at the bottom of Lake Atitlan, found Roberto Samayoa Asmus in 1996. Guatemala



Lake Atitlan is the most important spiritual and wellness center in Guatemala over the past two thousand years. The first settlements on its banks appeared in the 300th BC. e. With the 200-year BC. e. on the 200th year BC. e. here was a temple, now hidden under the water. The sunken city found pottery and other artifacts.



Samabah left under water about 1,700 years ago, when the water level in the lake rose suddenly by 20 meters. Archaeologists think that the reason for this could be a volcanic eruption at the bottom of the lake, blocked natural outflow of water.



But Lake Atitlan is still used as a ceremonial center and remains a sacred place where Mayan astrology and religion still practiced by many distant descendants of this civilization.

12. Bezidu Nou, Romania



1995

The whole village, including two old churches, drowned in 1988, and since then only one church cupola is seen from under water for more than two decades. This place was one of many destroyed towns and villages in the era of Ceausescu.



2008

Countess Claudine Redi von Kis-Rede, an ancestor of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, was born here in 1812, but the location of her final resting place was in the Reformed Church of the city, restored in 1936 thanks to a donation from the Queen Mary of England, the great-granddaughter of the Countess Rede.



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