Here is a neat story. The Tsunami that killed so many thousands of people also led to a new archeological discovery.
The city that has been found is largely underwater and there were legends of an ancient port city in the area that until now were thought only to be a local version of the story of Troy or Atlantis. What I also find of note is the rise in Sea Level since the 8th-7th century necessary to submerge this city. How many other older coastal cities are there off the coasts around the world waiting to be discovered ? How much have sea levels risen since this time and why? Despite global warming, sea levels in recent (industrial) history have been very constant. Since I am also a fan (not necessarily a believer) of the works of Immanuel Velikovsky I find the dating of the ruins to the 7th-8th century (assuming they are talking BC ) to be very interesting as the last of his supposed cataclysms were supposed to have happened in that time frame.
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Well that is why I wasn't certain. If the cities existence makes it a contemporary of Troy then BC is more likely. I would find it odd for 'legend' status to have evolved in just a few centuries from the 7th 8th to the 14th.
Even if it is the 8th century AD then that still is interesting cause that puts a signficant rise of ocean levels in the last 1000 years. That is not something I am familiar with as being discussed in History. If the sea rose that much (as opposed to the land subsiding in that area due to sesimc activity) then many sea side cities of the day must also have faced the same problem. Is this when the dike building in Holland happend perhaps ?
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