Pavlopetri, Greece
About 5000 years old (3000 BC), the ancient sucken city was found in 1967 by Nicholas Flemming, marine geologist from the UK. It was left alone for about 30 years till summer of '09 when another archeologist, Jon Henderson, was doing digital survey and because of the sand shifting they discovered the site was a lot bigger than they thought with at least 15 buildings and over 9,000 square meters. Some finds include:
graves and pottery from Mycenaean period - 1600 - 1100 BC
rock cut tombs, large ceremonial hall, and pottery from at least 2800 BC
It is possible that the adventures of Troy and Laconia from Homer's story would have ported here.
Looks to have been abandon around 1100BC but the cause of the cities destruction is unknown.
I researched a bit online but I found out about this originally from "New Scientists" magazine. There are quite a few new discoveries including using "dark matter" as a possible energy source to travel in space O_o and stem cell debut set for 2010.
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very interesting...thanks for sharing.
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