People LOVE to live by the ocean.
It’s the best, great views, playing on the beach, not life guards.
What else could you want.
Well the ocean can be a harsh mistress and many cities throughout history have felt her
wrath.
Here at 10 sunken cites that aren’t Atlantis.
9 In the year 0, Baiae was a jewel on the west
coast of Italy, it neighbored to Naples and sat tall on top of the bay.
It was a fashionable resort town for the roman elite and several of Rome’s greatest emperors
loved Baiae.
Virgil, Cicero, and Claudius have been noted to enjoy this as a spot to cool off in the
summer.
Some have called it the “Las Vegas of the Roman Empire” It is believed that at its
height, the opulence of Baiaie surpassed that of Pompeii and Capri.
The super rich built luxurious villas in Baiae.
They enjoyed profligate feasts, fancy heated baths, and decked out pools.
But all of that luxury sunk like a word down their fancy toy let when bradyseismic volcanic
activity made the ground beneath their feet literally fall away and sent the city down
under.
To this day, many fine buildings can be explored beneath the surface of the water.
Pop Quiz hot spot, when the Ice Age ended the polar ice caps melted and the sea level
rose.
How many feet do you think the ocean rose during that time?
See if you can guess the correct answer in the comments below and I’ll let you know
later on in the video if you’re right.
8.
Yonaguni is an island in Southern Japan.
The city and temple complex found some 200 feet below the ocean’s surface there.
the city has no name that we know of and its was older than any Japanese civilization.
It was lost to history for thousands of years until it was discovered in 1995, by a sport
diver.
The current and water conditions are challenging in the spot that the Yonaguni underwater ruins
were found.
It’s a difficult dive, but those who have made it have many pictures, footage, and proof
that this amazing place existed.
It can be dated up to 11,000 years ago.
People were not supposed to be this advanced that long ago.
Let alone in a place like this, a blip between Japanese and Taiwanese waters.
Of course, it was all above ground then.
Come sear is he’s of cover-ups even exist around the Yonaguni discovery.
We have found artifacts, but rumors of human remains, pottery, and tools have been circulating-
in addition to the irrefutable facts that there is a city down there with a giant pyramidal
structure.
The staircases and architectural style remind of the Incans in Peru.
The only facts we do know is that this is a mystery, and a place of great significance
where man, or the predecessors of modern the Japanese once congregated.
The thing is, it could be even older than that.
The history books now need to be rewritten.
And Yonaguni is not the only reason why, but it is a slice of a much larger and mysterious
pie has many unanswered questions.
7 In the 11th century, Dunwich was one of the
largest towns in England.
However, a succession of storms in the 13th and 14th centuries eroded the coastline.
The town is now almost entirely underwater.
Heavy storms hit the coast for decades.
Locals best her at Lee built deep fence ditches to try to hold back the waters and save the
city from drowning, but they couldn’t stop the harsh sea from setting up shop in town.
And literally, there goes the neighborhood!
6
Olous, near the northern coast of Crete, was a port town of high significance back in the
first thousand years before Christ.
They had their own currency and the people there lived relatively opulent lives because
of the wealth that flowed through the port.
It now sits beneath the shallow blue waters off the Cretan north shore.
Olous was called the city of fountains.
According to legend, Sear of pirates and leaves lead the citizens to build 100 fountains and
wells in the surrounding area.
99 of them contained only water, but one is said to contain the entire wealth of treasure
from the old city.
It has never been found.
We know Olous is now a sunken city but nobody knows why.
Erosion, sea rise, volcanic eruptions are all theories, but only that.
It’s still possible to visit Oluos, though, but you’ll need a snorkel.
An ongoing archeological excavation is still on site.
But if you do go and discover the treasure from that one hundredth fountain- would you
say anything?
5.
Pavlopetri was a harbor town on the Mediterranean in what is now modern day Greece.
It stood over 5,000 years ago, when the whole of western civilization was still young.
The city grew for 2,000 years.
It became one of the busiest and most well-known ports in the whole Mediterranean.
Historians are certain this was a cultural hub for trade and art.
The fact that it is confirmed to date back to the Neolithic period around 3,000 BC makes
it all the more inspiring to know what was going on.
But the great city just disappeared one day.
How?
It was an earthquake.
A huge earthquake rattled the town violet Lee - and by the end, the place got shoved
under the sea.
But still divers can go see what remains.
Intact streets, buildings and temples can still be explored.
This window to the past of ancient Greece is really something special.
4.
Ravenser Odd was an old pirate town in England’s middle ages.
It was originally one of the most strategic landing zone for Vikings- when Yorkshire was
called Yorvik.
The inhabitants, from all reports, were mostly leaves, vagabonds, and yeah- pirates.
They had a legitimate government with courts, risen, and for the worst boys and girls- the
shallows.
That was life in Ravenser Odd until the sea eventually began to overwhelm the town.
On each high tide, the erosion took in more of the city.
Bodies from the graveyard started washing out to sea.
When the people of Ravenser Odd finally began to run, a lot of perches were looted on their
way out.
An event known as the Great browning came- January 1362.
Ferocious storm winds and unusually high tides submerged Ravenser Odd by winter’s end.
3.
Port Royal, Jamaica was once said to be the “Wick said best City on Earth”., Captain
Henry Morgan was the oh see Jack Sparrow who ruled it like a buccaneering King Joffrey.
He was made their Lieutenant Governor in the 1670’s.
The city was a world-famous hub for pirates and all the debauchery that seems to follow
‘em around.
It looks like tons of sunken cities were hubs for piracy.
It’s no instant karma rail, but there does seem to be a lot of pirates on the ocean floor.
People didn’t seemed too fond of the Port when it was still standing, and some were
glad to see it gone when a massive earthquake leveled Port Royal on June 7, in 1692.
Right after, a giant tsunami swept in, and swept out with all the earthquake’s deep
instruction and whatever else was left of the city.
When a 33-acre chunk of Port Royal fell in the ocean, 2,000 people tried.
One sure live her wrote of the moments during the tsunami “your heart would abhor to hear
of the depredations, Rob her sees and violet” Whatever went down at Port Royal is magic,
and it pucks they had to go out like that- in chaos.
But the word chaos kind of sums up the city’s vibe when it still existed.
Present day students and pros alike come to the site where old Port Royal stood.
The lessons keep piling up.
A new port is now part of Kingston.
In the old wreckage, new discoveries continue.
It gives a small idea of what we might miss out on much older sites.
2.
Ship Cheng in the Zhejieng province of China is a beautiful underwater ancient spectacle
that means lion city.
And it’s beneath the lion mountains from the Han dynasty circa 200 B.E.
With lions everywhere, it’s this area had a thing for lions.
But sadly, there’s no mystery why this beautiful underwater antiquity exists.
It was purposefully flooded to create a hydroelectric dam in 1959, classic China!
It’s Answer time!
According to NASA when the massive ice sheets covering north America during the ice age
melted that water ran into the ocean and raised the sea level 393 feet.
That’s enough water to put submerge the entire statue of liberty
1 A legend that Indians call “The Golden City”,
used to be a thriving place of beauty that belonged to Krishna, a Hindu Todd.
It was only a legend for thousands of years until it was discovered in the Gulf of Cambay,
120 feet deep.
This was accomplished with equipment like sonar scanning tools and a lucky guess.
They probed an area that used to be above land before the last ice age, and made the
discovery of a lifetime.
It’s a 5-mile-long & 2-mile-wide mother with huge and beautiful sculptures, walls,
and buildings.
The craziest part is that it’s estimated about 10,000 years old.
That’s about twice as old as the places we used to think of as the progenitors of
modern civilization.
Graham Hancock said: “Nothing else on the scale of the underwater cities of Cambay is
known”.
It’s such a big find that we must “start from scratch” to reconfigure where we believe
it is that we come from and how we got to where we are today.