Articles for tag: Atlantis myth, Sunken City, underwater ruins, Yonaguni Monument

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The Sunken City of Yonaguni: Japan’s Atlantis or a Natural Wonder?

Suhail Ahmed

  Off Japan’s far southwest, where hammerhead sharks glide along cobalt drop-offs, a stepped stone massif rises from the seafloor and refuses to yield its secret. Divers call it the Yonaguni Monument; skeptics call it textbook geology; believers whisper about a drowned city. Since a local diver first spotted its razor-edged terraces in 1986, the ...