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If you visit Mycenae in Greece, there are notes for visitors there explaining why the Greeks built such a complex city in that location, which seems to have no
by PaulDavisThe1st 2y ago
If you visit Mycenae in Greece, there are notes for visitors there explaining why the Greeks built such a complex city in that location, which seems to have no particular importance today ... looking out from the city towards the sea is a large flat plain. Apparently, when Mycenae was built, almost all of that plain was underwater, and the city sat on the edge of the ocean. Same process, only in this case, a slow, steady uplift out of the sea rather than a descent into it.
- empath75 2y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIpsQb5RtT4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIpsQb5RtT4 Different phenomenon, but there's a bunch of hills in wales that have "island" names because they used to be islands in a bay. All the land in the bay was reclaimed in the early 19th century. And the famous city of Ephesus moved several times because the port kept silting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrXd7UCuxsk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrXd7UCuxsk, before it eventually became just completely landlocked and abandoned.