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Pinke
CosmicDude
Coolest thing is this is a city it was thought to be a legend, so, it`s just a matter of time they find other legendary cities, like.....Atlantis for example
...And if it`s also under clay sediments can be well conserved as well
Don't want to kill excitement because I love history ...
But this is a city that is only mentioned in a few texts. Atlantis is a city whose main textual reference comes from someone that was prone to writing philosophical fiction. Would be neat if Atlantis was real, but the two things are a fair distance apart.
geo1066
reply to post by CosmicDude
I read your link. That is an awesome find. Something just didn't sit with me quite right though. You know that old saying "..if it looks to good to be true.."? Maybe my lack of knowledge, but I would think that all of those artifacts being underwater for 1500+ years would have some sort of 'Mother Nature' growing on them.
Komodo
reply to post by Klassified
WOW.. just WOW .. ! My head swimming and my heart is pounding with excitement .. !!
I'm still not seeing how this can change history forever since it was recorded back in BC times; just trying to put 2 & 2 together ..
Rosinitiate
Can someone on here translate what it says?
Troy was non-existent and just a legend, was discovered.
The Lovelock cave giants were also not a myth, turned out there were such things based on the arrows and red hair they found there.
Now another city in the Odyssey from being just in the fiction is discovered.
This is objective science, anything that you see differs from this way of thinking is scoffing, pseudoscience and should be punished severely!
Marsupilami
reply to post by CosmicDude
This looks absolutely fantastic! It's a shame I can't open the link.
The stele of Thonis-Heracleion
Anne Sophie von Bomhard
The most emblematic monument brought up by the European Institute of Underwater
Archaeology, directed by Franck Goddio from the sea, is a magnificent stele of black
grano-diorite stone, found intact and in situ in 2001 in the area of the temple of
Heracleion. It is a royal decree of Nectanebo I. The text engraved on this monument signs
the discovery of the town of Heracleion and proves that Heracleion and Thonis are names
of the same township.
The decree enumerates the details of a donation to the temple of Saïs, from customs dues
collected at Thonis and trade taxes perceived at Naukratis. It provides topographic and
onomastic information, as well as the first attestation written in hieroglyphs of the
complete name of the town of Thonis.
The composition and the perfect execution of the monument show that it was
produced by one of the best workshops of the period. The richness and
sophistication of the language accompanied by numerous subtle theological allusions to
the mythological role and importance of the goddess Neith, lead to the suggestion that the
drafting of the text was carried out by one of the great scholars of the temple of Neith at
Saïs.
ImpactoR
Troy was non-existent and just a legend, was discovered.
ImpactoRThe Lovelock cave giants were also not a myth, turned out there were such things based on the arrows and red hair they found there.
ImpactoRNow another city in the Odyssey from being just in the fiction is discovered.
ImpactoRWhat makes those skeptical f4g-gots to think that Atlantis following the same logic may not have existed as well? How many more examples do you need to stay OPEN MINDED?