Cleopatra's Palace in Alexandria (Egypt)

Off the shores of Alexandria, the city of Alexander the Great, lies what is believed to be the ruins of the royal quarters of Cleopatra. A team of marine archaeologists led by Frenchman Franck Goddio made excavations on this ancient city from where Cleopatra, the last queen of the Ptolemies, ruled Egypt. Historians believe this site was submerged by earthquakes and tidal waves more than 1,600 years ago.

The excavations concentrated on the submerged island of Antirhodus. Cleopatra is said to have had a palace there. Other discoveries include a well-preserved shipwreck and red granite columns with Greek inscriptions. Two statues were also found and were lifted out of the harbour. One was a priest of the goddess Isis; the other a sphinx whose face is said to represent Cleopatra's father, King Ptolemy XII. The artifacts were returned to their silent, because the Egyptian Government says it wants to leave most of them in place to create an underwater museum.

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World's Wickedest City, Port Royal (Jamaica)

One of the advantages of marine or nautical archeology is that, in many instances, catastrophic events send a ship or its cargo to the bottom, freezing a moment in time. A catastrophe that has helped nautical archeologists was the earthquake that destroyed part of the city of Port Royal, Jamaica. Once known as the "Wickedest City on Earth" for its sheer concentration of pirates, prostitutes and rum, Port Royal is now famous for another reason: "It is the only sunk city in the New World," according to Donny L. Hamilton.

Port Royal began its watery journey to the Academy Awards of nautical archeology on the morning of June 7, 1692, when, in a matter of minutes, a massive earthquake sent nearly 33 acres of the city -- buildings, streets, houses, and their contents and occupants -- careening into Kingston Harbor. Today, that underwater metropolis encompasses roughly 13 acres, at depths ranging from a few inches to 40 feet.

In 1981, the Nautical Archaeology Program of Texas A&M University, in cooperation with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) and the Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT), began underwater archaeological investigations of the submerged portion of the 17th-century town of Port Royal, Jamaica. Present evidence indicates that while the areas of Port Royal that lay along the edge of the harbor slid and jumbled as they sank, destroying most of the archaeological context, the area investigated by TAMU / INA, located some distance from the harbor, sank vertically, with minimal horizontal disturbance.

In contrast to many archaeological sites, the investigation of Port Royal yielded much more than simply trash and discarded items. An unusually large amount of perishable, organic artifacts were recovered, preserved in the oxygen-depleted underwater environment. Together with the vast treasury of complimentary historical documents, the underwater excavations of Port Royal have allowed for a detailed reconstruction of everyday life in an English colonial port city of the late 17th century.

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LOST CITIES

Alexandria, Egypt.

Offshore Alexandria, city from the Alexander the Great, laid at the ocean bottom what was trusted as the ruined grandeur rooms of Cleopatra. It was believed that a big earthquake around 1,500 years ago that caused it sank into the sea with all histrorical statues and other parts of Cleopatra’s palace.

Bay of Cambay, India.

Years ago it was found a city that aged of more than 9,500 years old. But the more important thing is that this invention is 5,000 years older from what they ever found in this area, It forced the historian to re-evaluate their explanations about the culture histories at that area. This invention is called Dwarka of City of Gold, named after the old city under the sea owned by God Khrisna.

Kwan Phayao, Thailand.

Actually the 500 years old temple that resides in the bottom of Phayao’s lake is not strange. The strange part is that the lake was purposely newly made 70 years ago.

Yonaguni-Jima, Japan.

Founded by a diving tour guide approximately 20 years ago. Many controversies about the mysterious pyramid that was found in Japan’s offshore. The structure which made from stone was looked like being chiselled using the tools that presumed was not exist at that time in those area.

Havana, Cuba.

A team of scientist is continuing their research about the ruined Megalitic in Yucatan’s straits near Cuba. They found proof that there is a urban settlement couple of miles along coast wise. Some believe that those who ever live there was the old America’s culture.

North Sea, Europe.

Recently a landscape was found in the bottom of North Sea. It was formerly inhabitted by human, approximately 10,000 years ago. Those area was river, lake and ocean which now laid in the bottom part of the sea.

Atlantis, Antartica.

More than 100 years ago, a museum curator in Istanbul found an old map. After did some examination with the map, he found a location that was marked with the line of mountains which the location was where the Antartica’s now presenting. This map is one of so many evidences which proven that Antartica is the missing Atlantis City. The new evidence was the discovery using the sonar technology which shown that there is another structure under Antartica.

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