Cleopatra's palace in Alexandria (Egypt)
Off the coast of Alexandria, the city of Alexander the Great, is located what is believed to be the ruins of Cleopatra's royal quarters. A team of marine archaeologists, led by Frenchman Franck Goddio conduct excavations in this ancient city from where Cleopatra, last queen Ptolemies, ruled Egypt yag. Historians believe the site was submerged by earthquakes and tidal waves more than 1,600 years ago.
Excavation concentrated on a submerged island Antirhodus. Cleopatra is said to have had a palace there. In other findings include a well-preserved shipwrecks and red granite sphinx with the inscription Yunani.Juga found that Cleopatra is said to represent his father, King Ptolemy XII. Artifacts still remain in place originally, because the Egyptian government memnginginkan place to create an underwater museum.
Most Vile City On Earth, Port Royal (Jamaica)Port Royal is a town destroyed by earthquake in Jamaica on June 7, 1692. Port Royal Previously known as the "City of the Most Keji on Earth", because there where the concentration of pirates, prostitutes and rum.
Within minutes the town covering an area of almost 33 hectares, including buildings, roads and houses and their contents lost in the sea water. Today, underwater metropolis lives leaving about 13 acres, at a depth ranging from a few inches to 40 feet.
In 1981, Nautical Archaeology Program Texas A & M University, in collaboration with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) and the Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT), began underwater archaeological investigations ranging from the submerged 17th-century town of Port Royal, Jamaica . Now evidence suggests that while the area of Port Royal is located along the edge of the harbor were destroyed when they sank, destroying most of the archaeological context, the area investigated by the TAMU / INA, is located some distance from the harbor, sunk vertically, horizontally with little interference.
The Submerged Temples of Mahabalipuram (India)According to popular belief the Temple of Mahabalipuram is not a temple, but the latest in a series of seven temples, six of whom were drowned. The discovery of the ruins of the main building took place in April 2002 off the coast of Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu, South India, at a depth of 5 to 7 meters (15-21 feet) made by a joint team from Dorset Scientific Exploration Society (SES) and India's National Institute of Oceanography (NIO). Investigations at the location of each stone, the remains of the wall, spread, stone square and rectangular blocks and a large platform with the steps that led to it. All this lay in the midst of a local rock geological formations.
There are 4 figure of a lion in four locations, the ruins were inferred to be part of the temple complex. Pallava dynasty, which controlled the region during the 7th century AD, is known to have a lot of hard stone buildings such as structural temples in Mahabalipuram and Kanchipuram.
Yonaguni-Jima, Building 8000-year-old (Japan)
Located 68 kilometers from the east coast of Taiwan, Yonaguni Island is a remarkable place because the rocky coastline and mountains. Submerged debris that is located on the southern coast of Yonaguni: 100 × 50x25 meter manmade artifacts of stone slabs standing erect. It is estimated about 8,000 years old, which is very early for this kind of technology that has been used for carving it. There are different theories about the possible identity of this structure
While people say this is the remains of the ruins of the lost continent of Mu, archaeologists call it the result of geological processes that can not be explained. And when you look at the hallways and stairs finely designed, the idea to say this is a "natural phenomenon" will appear.
Megalith building was discovered accidentally by a sport diver in 1995 when he had strayed beyond the permissible limits of the coast of Okinawa. The interesting thing about this large stone building is that the arch was made of beautiful stone block bearing a resemblance to the style and architecture of a vast civilization Inca.Perdebatan about the ruins of prehistoric civilization was associated as a Parent
Pavlopetri (Greece)Pavlopetri ancient city lies on three to four meters off the southern coast of Laconia in Greece. Ruins date from at least until 2800 BC. Found intact buildings, courtyards, streets, rooms and thirty-seven tombs Cist tombs ascribed Mycenaean period (1680-1180 BC). These include phase of Bronze Age Greece is included in many ancient Greek literature and mythology, including Homer's Age of Heroes.Mycenaean Sites offer new knowledge about how to live and work system at that time, given only little knowledge about it, which he said people Mycenaean only expand their power toward the sea.
Poet Dwarka (India)Among the most interesting archaeological discoveries made in India in recent years were made in offshore Dwarka and Bet Dwarka in Gujarat. Excavations have been ongoing since 1983. These are two places 30 km apart from each other. Dwarka in the Arabian sea coast, and the Bet Dwarka is in the Gulf of Kutch. Second place is associated with legends about Krishna are good, there are many temples here, especially those belonging to the medieval period.
Rated as one of the seven oldest cities in the country, the city is legendary Dvaraka residence of Lord Krishna. It is believed that due to the damage and destruction by sea, Dvaraka have sunk six times.
Lost Village (Canada)"Lost Villages" located in the province of Ontario, Canada, in the former township of Cornwall and Osnabruck (now South Stormont) near Cornwall, who drowned permanently due to the creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1958.
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