March
03
/ 2021
Nothing sparks the imagination of history enthusiasts quite like underwater discoveries, ranging from sunken cities to the millions of shipwrecks still unexplored on the seabed. The bottom of the seas and oceans of the world have been described as the biggest museum of the world, with less than 1% of the ocean floor having been surveyed to date. The remains of the Bronze Age port of Pavlopetri were discovered as recently as the 1960s and some argue that they may have been the basis for the legendary story of Atlantis. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"83789","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","height":"350","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"610"}}]] The ruins of Pavlopetri are located a short distance from the coastline, just a few meters underwater in Vatika Bay in southern Greece. ( World Monuments Fund ) Discovery
