Articles for tag: lost cities, Underwater Archaeology

Beneath the Waves: The Submerged Temples of India's Lost City, Dwarka

Beneath the Waves: The Submerged Temples of India’s Lost City, Dwarka

Annette Uy

Imagine walking through the ruins of an ancient city, where carved stone pillars emerge from crystal-clear waters and temple walls tell stories thousands of years old. This isn’t a scene from a fantasy novel—it’s the reality of Dwarka, where archaeologists have uncovered one of India’s most remarkable underwater archaeological sites. The legendary city, mentioned in ...

a statue of a man and a woman in the water

Could Atlantis Have Been in the Caribbean?

Suhail Ahmed

Storm-stirred legends and sonar stripes don’t often share a page, yet the Caribbean keeps forcing them into the same conversation. Over the last two decades, deep-ocean mapping has transformed swaths of blue emptiness into textured landscapes of canyons, terraces, and scars – features that some enthusiasts argue whisper of a drowned civilization. Scientists counter with ...

Homo erectus (fossil hominid skull) & indochinite tektites display in the museum

Lost World Unearthed: First Hominin Fossils Recovered from Submerged Sundaland

April Joy Jovita

In a discovery that reshapes our understanding of early human migration in Southeast Asia, scientists have recovered the first hominin fossils from the now-submerged lowlands of ancient Sundaland. Published in Quaternary Environments and Humans, the study reveals that Homo erectus and other archaic humans once inhabited this vast landmass—now hidden beneath the Java Sea—during the ...