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There were definitely more cities which were coastal that disappeared as soon as the sea level rose several tens of meters.

• ed25519FUUU 6y ago
  Which cities? As far as I’m aware, in recorded history the only “city” being hinted at disappearing under sea was Atlantis, and even that considered to be fictional. Maybe more I’d you include the deluge myth[1]. None of those was a gradual increase in sea level. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth
  • Balgair 6y ago
    Doggerland is good example. Here's a link to get started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland Fishermen have been pulling up housing remnants, bones, fishhooks, etc for a long time out of there. Australia too: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8479739/First-Aboriginal-sites-discovered-underwater-Australia-date-8-500-years.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8479739/Firs...
    • reedwolf 6y ago
      Doggerland was a "city" in any way we understand the term. There's a bait-and-switch happening here.
  • ncmncm 6y ago
    There is a great deal of monumental stonework off western India, in 30-100 ft of water. It snags fishermen's nets. It should be easy to see how being forced to leave your ancestral home would transmute, in the telling over millennia, into a cataclysmic event.