Ancient Sunken City


	Ancient Sunken City

countryboylife

10-22-2009 8:20 AM

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10-22-2009 1:14 PM

lollipop10

Interesting clip, thanks.

10-22-2009 2:57 PM

jatfla

So interesting to read about, but I sure wouldn't have wanted to see it up close and personal.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/dc57b64d-0041-46cc-9ae1-074e25adacc9/0A59916D-FB39-4E31-B264-8E55A2FF889D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18023-underwater-town-breaks-antiquity-record.html" href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18023-underwater-town-breaks-antiquity-record.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18023-underwater-town-breaks-antiquity-record.html"><P class="infuse">A settlement that long ago sank into the Mediterranean Sea has been identified as the world's oldest underwater town. Pavlopetri, <A target="ns" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.51698,22.98865&spn=0.01,0.01&t=m&q=36.51698,22.98865">off the southern coast of the Pelopennese in Greece</A>, has been dated to around 3000 BC.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18023-underwater-town-breaks-antiquity-record.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.newscientist.com/img/2DC1DE04-E83D-43B7-95AF-68A9E894556B" alt="Archaeology rocks (Image: Pavlopetri Expedition)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18023-underwater-town-breaks-antiquity-record.html"><P class="infuse">"What we've got here is something that's 2000 or even 3000 years older than most of the submerged cities that have been studied. And its uniqueness is not just its age, but the fact that it was used as a port."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18023-underwater-town-breaks-antiquity-record.html"> "This was effectively a massive town, with a hinterland of scattered farms in the hills, plus copper mines,"</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18023-underwater-town-breaks-antiquity-record.html"><P class="infuse">Pavlopetri is thought to have sunk as a result of the frequent earthquakes that afflict the region.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0A59916D-FB39-4E31-B264-8E55A2FF889D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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