Sunken Greek city may have inspired Atlantis myth
A lost city, sunk off the coast of southern Greece, may have formed the inspiration for the enduring and popular myth of Atlantis. A recent exploration of the site, known as Pavlopetri, by a team of British and Greek marine geologists and archeologists has revealed a great deal about the mysterious location.
The sunken city dates back 5,000 years to the time of the poet Homer’s heroes – long before the ascendancy of classical Greece – and according to experts is wholly unprecedented in terms of size and wealth of detail. Significantly, it is the first sunken city to be found in Greece that predates Plato’s tale of Atlantis and may have formed the inspiration for the poet’s most famous work.
With artifacts and ruins dating from 2,800 to 1,200 BC, Pavlopetri is the world’s oldest submerged city and is said to offer greater potential insight into Mycenaean Greece than any other archeological site.
It is as yet unknown why the city might have sunk but current theories include changes in the sea level, ground subsidence as the result of earthquakes, or a tsunami.
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...What a misleading title :|
Atlantis was described as being beyond the Pillars of Hercules which is the modern day straits of gibraltar, which the city of Pavlopetri is not. And to claim it to be the oldest is a reaaalll stretch. There are cities submerged under 100ft-400ft of water that predate the meltdown of the iceage. Which was at least 11000 years ago..making these cities WAY older. If you wanna dive even further, the sphinx in egypt has water damage from thousands of years of water damage....and there has been rain on the giza plateau in 15000 years! Making the pyramids and the sphinx WAY WAY older then claimed.