February
03
/ 2024
An international team of researchers has been awarded a grant of more than £11.5 million (about $14.5 million USD) to organize an underwater archaeological survey of ancient ruins that are currently submerged beneath the Baltic Sea and the North Sea in northwestern Europe. These now-flooded and ruined Stone Age settlements, existed more than three million years ago and only ended sometime between 4,000 and 2,000 BC. The upcoming explorations of the underwater Stone Age settlements will be carried out under the auspices of the SUBNORDICA project, a cooperative venture to be undertaken by underwater archaeologists and other researchers from several European nations, including Germany, Denmark and the United Kingdom. The first SUBNORDICA missions will be launched sometime in the first
