8,500-Year-Old Lost Civilization Doggerland Discovered At Bottom Of North Sea

[Illusion]

Millennia ago, it was the heart of the continent, until sea levels rose, giving us the Europe we know today. A preview of how New York City will be spoken of when it is newly uncovered ten thousand years from now. The Daily Mail reports:

‘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.

Dr Bates, a geophysicist, said: “Doggerland was the real heartland of Europe until sea levels rose to give us the UK coastline of today. We have speculated for years on the lost land’s existence from bones dredged by fishermen all over the North Sea, but it’s only since working with oil companies in the last few years that we have been able to re-create what this lost land looked like.”


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[PlinyTheYounger]

Very interesting find, thanks

[icheerthebull]

thanks for posting

[Arkoquisa]

VERY NICE!!! this gets my historian boner hard, BTW the whole mammoth hunt is a myth, sorry, take some archeology classes and you will see how utterly silly the idea is, my caveman dreams were crushed but it's ok, and these people were also going to north america at the same time via an Atlantic ice bridge, 25% of all native american blood is european and all spear technology is from europe, again amazing post

[Norwegian1]