{"id":26381,"date":"2023-11-26T10:10:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T10:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mormonmediareviews.com\/?p=26381"},"modified":"2023-11-26T10:10:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T10:10:26","slug":"real-life-atlantis-lost-to-the-sea-where-2400-year-old-relics-still-wash-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mormonmediareviews.com\/world-news\/real-life-atlantis-lost-to-the-sea-where-2400-year-old-relics-still-wash-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Real life Atlantis lost to the sea where 2,400-year-old relics still wash up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlantis: Geologist discusses underwater find off Greek coast<\/h3>\n

The lost city of Atlantis is a mysterious place which has roused the interest of historians and archaeologists for hundreds of years.<\/p>\n

It was first mentioned by the Ancient Greek philosopher Plato around 1,600 years ago when he described it as a naval empire that ruled the western parts of the known world.<\/p>\n

He wasn’t writing from experience or through a story he had heard: he invented Atlantis purely as a fictional entity to convey a message.<\/p>\n

But that hasn’t stopped countless people from trying to crack the code and find the real Atlantis, contenders for the city found across the world.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most promising came in the form of Thonis-Heracleion, an Ancient Egyptian port which soon succumbed to the sea from which archaeologists have found countless intriguing relics and artefacts.<\/p>\n

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Located near the Canonic Mouth of the River Nile, Thonis-Heracleion was a key trading hub prior to the founding of Alexandria in 331 BC when the Greeks arrived.<\/p>\n

Its history is legendary, with ancient scribes citing its founding going back to as early as the 12th century BC.<\/p>\n

In the waning days of the Egyptian pharaohs, Thonis-Heracleion was of utmost importance to the declining empire, though its demise was written in the stars regardless of whether the pharaohs fell or not.<\/p>\n

Thonis-Heracleion’s fate rested with nature as over time, the city was weakened by a combination of earthquakes, tsunamis, and rising sea levels.<\/p>\n

At some point, around 100 BC, most likely after a severe flood, the ground on which Thonis-Heracleion was built gave way to soil liquefaction, a process by which the solid ground quite literally becomes liquid.<\/p>\n

Earthquakes are known to cause such natural phenomena, and earth tremors and tidal waves were reported by ancient historians during the time of Thonis-Heracleion’s submersion.<\/p>\n

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