Not far off the coast of the village of Atlit in the Mediterranean Sea, near Haifa in Israel, lies the submerged ruins of the ancient Neolithic site of Atlit Yam. The prehistoric settlement, which dates back to the 7th millennium BC
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Over 70 percent of Earth s surface is covered by water. And from time to time, the works of human hands are claimed or reclaimed by its lakes, seas and oceans.
There s more than one way to put manmade settlements underwater. Sometimes, they re submerged intentionally, the casualties of engineering projects. In other cases, natural forces (like earthquakes) conspire to swallow them up.
We invite you to join us on a grand, watery tour of seven submerged places. Distributed around the world, they range from pre-Incan ruins to a Canadian town marked for destruction.
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Dec. 23, 2020
A mega-tsunami slammed into what is today Israel’s northern shore nearly 10,000 years ago, reaching a height of up 40 meters and traveling inland for kilometers, researchers have discovered.
This massive wave would have wiped out prehistoric villages along a segment of the coast and might explain why archaeologists have found no evidence of habitation in this area for a span of millennia during the early Neolithic.
The discovery, published Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE, is the latest in a series of similar studies that have detected evidence of other ancient tsunamis in the region.
These finds serve as a warning that such events can be surprisingly frequent, and devastating, even in a relatively small, all-but-closed sea like the Mediterranean, experts say.