This timeline is why archaeologists have found the city to be extremely significant. This has led them to realize that the sunken lost city was a quite complex urban center at its time.Įxperts estimate Pavlopetri was built around 3,000 BC, and sunk around 1,100 BC due to earthquakes common to this region. Archaeologists have recreated what the 5,000 year old city may have looked like using modern technology. The city lies just 13 feet (around 4 meters) underwater.
Greek Reporter recently published an article on the city of Pavlopetri, discovered off the southern tip of the Peloponnese. Pavlopetri: A Possible Atlantis? Pavlopetri, underwater ancient Greek city This indicates there might be a lot more depth and complexity to ancient Greek civilization than we know. For this reason, they believe they found a city ahead of its time.Īs University of Geneva Professor Julien Beck stated, the foundations were “of a massive nature, unknown in Greece until now.” The settlement had stone defensive structure, paved surfaces, towers, and many other artifacts.Īrchaeologists stated that these defensive structures were more complex than any seen in Bronze Age ruins. Instead, they found a 12-acre settlement approximately 4,500 years old. They were hoping for a tiny 8,000 year old town. Like with the Bronze Age site found in the Argolic Gulf off the coast of the Peloponnese.Ī team of experts from the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, University of Geneva, and Swiss School of Archaeology were looking for remnants of the oldest village in Europe. Sometimes archaeologists find lost cities underwater that they weren’t even looking for. The Unnamed Bronze Age Metropolis Fortified walls remains of a sunken Bronze Age city/Credit: Ancient Origins Furthermore, they discovered pottery shards from ancient faraway trade routes, as well as microorganisms native to the Black Sea in this sunken city. After realizing the importance of their discovery, archaeologists looked around the peninsula to find a submerged ancient harbor from the Hellenistic period (323 B.C. Kane was a small but important trade city in ancient times between the Black Sea and the coast of modern day Turkey. So in fact, the peninsula they currently sat on was the long-lost third island. The experts determined that at some point in the Middle Ages, a land bridge formed between one of the original Arginusae islands and the shore through earthquakes or erosion.
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