An amazing series of discoveries continue around the world.. submerged lands and long gone worlds of the past. The most recent news of a forgotten land sunken under the water comes from Britain, where researchers say they have found their own version of Atlantis.
Scientists believe that the now being found relics of the past showcase a land that was vibrant; divers are finding evidence of traces of ancient people to, which are believed to have vanished with a huge tsunami wave around 8500 years ago.
The UK DAILY MAIL writes this:
'Britain's Atlantis' - a hidden underwater world swallowed by the North Sea - has been discovered by divers working with science teams from the University of St Andrews.Doggerland, a huge area of dry land that stretched from Scotland to Denmark was slowly submerged by water between 18,000 BC and 5,500 BC.Divers from oil companies have found remains of a 'drowned world' with a population of tens of thousands - which might once have been the 'real heartland' of Europe.A team of climatologists, archaeologists and geophysicists has now mapped the area using new data from oil companies - and revealed the full extent of a 'lost land' once roamed by mammoths
CBS news reports that divers have unearthed harpoons and flint tools; there are suspected burial sites being looked into now..
The history of Doggerland has been interesting. There were rumors of its existence but in 1931 a commercial ship dragged up barbed antler points that dated to the time when the area was a tundra. Subsequent findings included animal remains and prehistoric tools.
Sea levels rose after an ice age. Doggerland become submerged... parts of it that remained an island supposedly were gone after more flooding from a tsunami..
The landscape that once stretched from Scotland to Denmark and down the English Channel holds lots of potential scientific findings.. but what Doggerland also promises to do is begin another new new new new new chapter of human history.. We are older than we think but younger than we understand. We are new to the planet.. but some ancestors of the human race clearly didn't survive to hand down anything.
Amazing prospects being revealed deep under the sea.