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Pavlopetri – The City Beneath the WavesThis looks good! "Just off the southern coast of mainland Greece lies the oldest submerged city in the world. A city that thrived for 2000 years during the time that saw the birth of Western civilisation. An international team of experts uses the latest technology to investigate the site and digitally raise it from the seabed, to reveal the secrets of Pavlopetri. Led by underwater archaeologist Dr Jon Henderson, the team use the latest in cutting-edge science and technology to prise age-old secrets from the complex of streets and stone buildings that lie less than five metres below the surface. State-of-the-art CGI helps to raise the city from the seabed revealing, for the first time in 3,500 years, how Pavlopetri would once have looked and operated." Full article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015yh6f Bit more with a link to the related podcast here: http://www.historyextra.com/pavlopetri |
Posted by goffik7th October 2011ce Edited 2nd February 2012ce
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