Heracleion

Kat
Kat Posts: 4,973
edited May 2013 in A Moving Train
Just love this...anyone have more to share? Looking forward to the shows on this. Is it where the legend of Atlantis is from?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/2 ... 78208.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... -deep.html
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  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,783
    Facinating stuff look forward to watching ..
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  • StillHere
    StillHere Posts: 7,795
    Nice find. Can't wait to see more :)
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Some of those shots look surreal - can you imagine coming upon this?

    Sounds like the Atlantis origin, Kat; at least as they refer to it - "real life Atlantis".
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Pass this on to Stone. ;)

    http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/ocma-fieldwork-shipwreck.html
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    just an info.cos of the name,there is a city,named.Heracleion a Greek city at Crete island,ith the capital of the island,,its north of egypt,at Mediterranean Sea
    Atlantis,alot believe is under Santorini..(if you remember Lara croft movie starts there,at Santorini with a Greek wedding..

    and this is really very cool and big discover..!!
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,396
    that is incredible!

    i can't believe that those artifacts are in such good condition after being underwater for 1200 years.
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  • Drowned Out
    Drowned Out Posts: 6,056
    a documentary on the 13 year excavation? 13 years and this is the first I've heard of this :fp:
    I need to get out more.
  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    Look at those sculptures! Amazing!
  • Idris
    Idris Posts: 2,317
    I think Plato wrote about the lost city of Atlantis before the above city is said to of been drowned, also the location is off (yes I know for a 'lost' city that would be normal). (should(?) be The Strait of Gibraltar) (I could be wrong)

    Anyway, It's an amazing find, one of the few sunken cities found in the past 15 years.
  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    The first recorded mention of Atlantis is by Plato. This is what he said:

    "For the ocean there was at that time navigable; for in front of the mouth which you Greeks call, as you say, ‘the pillars of Heracles,’ there lay an island which was larger than Libya and Asia together."

    As Idris said, the pillars are the Straits of Gibraltar.

    It is said that Plato has drawn upon a number of stories/events for his dialogues. His vision of Atlantis was also a lot less utopic than in other 'writing's.

    I love legends/mysteries - Atlantis, Arthur, etc. - and the efforts in unraveling these mysteries! Most loosely based on facts/real people but a bit of a mish-mash of these.

    These submerged cities are absolutely fascinating and wonderful. One wonders what people will find in 1000 years from now... How far inland will have been submerged. How many cities to be found?
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    Hard to believe it hasn't been found until now.

    Was Putin involved with this discovery?

    :think:
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  • Idris
    Idris Posts: 2,317
    redrock wrote:
    One wonders what people will find in 1000 years from now... How far inland will have been submerged. How many cities to be found?

    They will probably find our current society, underwater and/or buried under the sands.

    1000 years from now, people will talk about a strange land once called the United States (like it was a myth), a once all powerful free utopia, Of course Some philosophers in a thousand years will surely differ, and say it was a country of hypocrisy and war, a state, a society that not only destroyed itself, but the world around it.

    Like these other great cities that are now being found, the reality of what once was, will emerge. History repeats itself, We will not be on the 'top' for ever.

    :D

    Or maybe we will be.
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    Another lost land found was around Tamil Nadu (India) after the Tsunami in 2004/5 http://mathildasweirdworldweblog.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/the-lost-city-of-mahabalipuram/

    Indian divers have found more evidence of an ancient port city, apparently revealed by the Indian ocean tsunami. Stone structures that are “clearly man-made” were seen on the seabed off the south coast, archaeologists say. They could be part of the mythical city of Mahabalipuram, which legend says was so beautiful that the gods sent a flood that engulfed six of its seven temples
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Nice.

    I read something about this recently. I think they're searching for the tomb/Mummy of Cleopatra.
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Nice.

    I read something about this recently. I think they're searching for the tomb/Mummy of Cleopatra.
    I (in hindsight) supposedly saw her mummy at the British Museum about 15 years ago, but now from what I'm reading, apparently not.

    (I sure hope the Rosetta Stone I saw there was legit)
  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    hedonist wrote:
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Nice.

    I read something about this recently. I think they're searching for the tomb/Mummy of Cleopatra.
    I (in hindsight) supposedly saw her mummy at the British Museum about 15 years ago, but now from what I'm reading, apparently not.

    (I sure hope the Rosetta Stone I saw there was legit)

    I saw King Tut

    Was interesting
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    peacefrompaul wrote:
    hedonist wrote:
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Nice.

    I read something about this recently. I think they're searching for the tomb/Mummy of Cleopatra.
    I (in hindsight) supposedly saw her mummy at the British Museum about 15 years ago, but now from what I'm reading, apparently not.

    (I sure hope the Rosetta Stone I saw there was legit)

    I saw King Tut

    Was interesting
    I would've loved to get in on that.

    (and thanks a lot for getting that Steve Martin song stuck in my head now)
  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    hedonist wrote:
    ]
    I would've loved to get in on that.

    (and thanks a lot for getting that Steve Martin song stuck in my head now)

    :lol:

    It's been a LONG time since I've heard THAT!
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    hedonist wrote:
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Nice.

    I read something about this recently. I think they're searching for the tomb/Mummy of Cleopatra.
    I (in hindsight) supposedly saw her mummy at the British Museum about 15 years ago, but now from what I'm reading, apparently not.

    (I sure hope the Rosetta Stone I saw there was legit)

    There is a mummy of Cleopatra at the British Museum, but it's not THE Cleopatra.

    http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/hi ... hebes.aspx

    Mummy of Cleopatra from Thebes

    From Qurna, Thebes, Egypt
    Roman period, early 2nd century AD

    A young woman of 17

    An inscription on her coffin states that this Cleopatra was the daughter of an important official at Thebes at the time of the Emperor Trajan (reigned AD 98-117). She died some 150 years after her famous namesake, Cleopatra VII.
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Byrnzie wrote:
    hedonist wrote:
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Nice.

    I read something about this recently. I think they're searching for the tomb/Mummy of Cleopatra.
    I (in hindsight) supposedly saw her mummy at the British Museum about 15 years ago, but now from what I'm reading, apparently not.

    (I sure hope the Rosetta Stone I saw there was legit)

    There is a mummy of Cleopatra at the British Museum, but it's not THE Cleopatra.

    http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/hi ... hebes.aspx

    Mummy of Cleopatra from Thebes

    From Qurna, Thebes, Egypt
    Roman period, early 2nd century AD

    A young woman of 17

    An inscription on her coffin states that this Cleopatra was the daughter of an important official at Thebes at the time of the Emperor Trajan (reigned AD 98-117). She died some 150 years after her famous namesake, Cleopatra VII.
    Argh! I somehow feel cheated, but (again, in hindsight) it was still quite the experience to see this particular her, in the modern-meets-historic sense.

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