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- Baiae, Italy. Once a party town for the ancient Romans, Baiae was famous for its soothing hot springs, pleasant weather and extravagant buildings. Julius Caesar and Nero both had luxury holiday villas here, and the emperor Hadrian actually died in the city in AD138.
- Thonis-Heracleion, Egypt. Frequently mentioned in ancient legends, Thonis-Heracleion was supposedly the place where the Greek hero Heracles (Hercules) first set foot in Egypt, and somewhere the lovers Paris and Helen visited before the Trojan War.
- Derwent, England. The village of Derwent, in Derbyshire, was deliberately submerged in order to create the Ladybower Reservoir. As cities such as Derby, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield continued to expand in the mid-20th Century, their growing populations required a greater supply of water.
- Villa Epecuén, Argentina. For nearly 25 years, the lakeside resort of Villa Epecuén was hidden beneath the waves, before reemerging in 2009. Founded in 1920 along the shores of a salt lake, Lake Epecuén, the resort drew in tourists who wished to bathe in its waters, which were said to have healing properties.
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- Yonaguni Jima. WHERE: Japan. The Yonaguni Monument is Japan’s Atlantis. Steeped in mystery and controversy, off the coast of the Ryukyu Islands, there lie strangely even shapes that some scientists believe can only be manmade and point to an ancient civilization submerged some 10,000 years ago.
- Lion City. WHERE: Shicheng, China. Qiandao Lake, the lake of a thousand islands, was created when a valley was flooded in 1959 for a hydroelectric plant and dam.
- Thonis-Heracleion and Alexandria. WHERE: Egypt. Long lost Alexandria has just as many legends and mysteries spun around it as Atlantis, but this one is real.
- San Roma de Sau. WHERE: Spain. Another reservoir, another village lost to floods. This 1,000-year-old village in Catalonia between Barcelona and the French border in north-eastern Spain became submerged in the 1960s.
- 25 Underwater Cities:Phanagoria, Greece
- 24 Underwater Cities:Dwarka, India
- 23 Underwater Cities: Villa Epecuén, Argentina
- 22 Underwater Cities: Port Royal, Jamaica
- 21 Underwater Cities: Thonis-Heracleion, Egypt
- 20 Underwater Cities:Shicheng, China
- 19 Underwater Cities:Mulifanua Site, Samoa
- 18 Underwater Cities:Pavlopetri, Greece
- 17 Underwater Cities:Curon Venosta, Italy
- 16 Underwater Cities:Yonaguni Jima, Japan
Before the underwater city was discovered, the notion of Phanagoria as a city was just another story in mythology. Fiction became real when archaeologists unearthed a gravestone of the legendary Hypsikrates, the wife of Mithradates VI. This underwater city now lies under the waters of the Black Sea, but long ago it was the largest Greek city. Furth...
The ancient city of Dwarka lies below modern day Dwarka in India. About 130 feet below the surface are magnificent ruins of the ancient city of Lord Krishna. Local legend tells of Lord Krishna's city of palaces made of precious gems, silver, and gold. The underwater city was discovered in the year 2000 and one artifact was believed to have come fro...
A small town in Argentina called Villa Epecuén was a prosperous community just 40 years ago. A lot has changed since then, though. During the late eighties and early nineties the town slowly sank, or the waters of the nearby EpecuénLake, or Lago Epecuén, slowly rose. The town was completely submerged in water before the end of the millennium. Then,...
If there were ever beautifully preserved underwater remains of a city that once flourished above ground, it would be Jamaica's, Port Royal. As devastating as it was for the port and its inhabitants, it was reported that the sinking of the port city took the lives of about 2,000 people. It was a perfectly preserved underwater city because when it sa...
Temples and stone statues, a lot of shipwrecks, assorted evidence of a city that was once above ground, these underwater remnants are what can be seen and what remained from an ancient Egyptian port. The sunken city of Thonis-Heracleion in Egypt was the official port of the country a long time ago. Perhaps the engineering and architecture of ports ...
China's famed underwater city is one of those rare underwater cities that was submerged on purpose. To make way for the construction of a huge dam in 1959. The inhabitants of the city all had to move out permanently for the project to get done. Now the Lion City is 40 meters underneath Quiandao Lake and is well-preserved. Checking it out is like ha...
When archaeologists came upon thousands of pieces of pottery spread over the seabed off the Samoan coast, they knew that these belonged to some form of civilization. Research of the area and its history led to the Lapita. They were a group of settlers that originated in Eastern Asia and traveled to Micronesia and Polynesia in 2,000 BC. These people...
This mysterious underwater city in Greece is called Pavlopetri. Remnants of the city and artifacts led archaeologists to claim that the city sunk about 5,000 years ago. Unlike the other ancient underwater cities found all over the planet, this lost city is really a forgotten one, as there are no myths or local legend that supports its existence. Th...
Curon and its unfortunate fate was an accidental sinking of a city after a dam construction had gone wrong. Curon is a city in Italy, near bordering countries Austria and Switzerland. Presently, the city is underneath Lake Recia, and the only thing letting people know that there once was a city in this location covered by the lake is a church bell ...
The Ryukyu Islands of Japan offers a spectacle no other island in the world possesses, an underwater pyramid. The amazing and gigantic structure is called the Yonaguni Monument, a 250-feet piece of boulder shaped like a pyramid. Some say it's not man-made, but natural, but we think it is man-made. How can a structure this big and shaped as it is no...
Feb 15, 2023 · But Bangkok is also built on very dense clay soil, which makes it even more prone to flooding. By 2030, most of the coastal Tha Kham and Samut Prakan areas could be underwater, as could its main ...
Sep 21, 2021 · Pavlopetri, Greece. Archeologists estimate that Pavlopetri is around 5000 years old. Believed to be the oldest underwater city, Pavopetri was discovered in 1967, which seemed like ancient ruins ...
Oct 13, 2022 · 4. Atlit-Yam, Israel. A fragment of ancient construction at Neve Yam Beach at Atlit, Israel. (Credit: Max Zalevsky/Shutterstock) More of a village than a city, the site of Atlit-Yam off the coast of northern Israel still has an impressive amount of material lingering under the water, especially since the site is about 7,500 to 8,000 years old.
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Sep 8, 2023 · Share: From the depths of the ocean, an ancient city rises from its forgotten depths. For centuries, the lost underwater city remained hidden from sight until its discovery by a team of archaeologists and divers in 2019. Now, explorers have uncovered an incredible world that is as mysterious as it is fascinating.
