Beneath the waves lie the streets of cities that people once walked.Off the coast of Egypt, divers have raised temples, colossal statues and the harbour of Thonis-Heracleion - a port Herodotus wrote about, and that nobody could find for sixteen hundred years. In a bay in southern Greece, the streets and house plots of Pavlopetri are still visible in four metres of clear water, laid out five thousand years ago. In Jamaica, a third of Port Royal slid into the harbour in two minutes on a June morning in 1692, and much of it is still down there.Beneath the Waves is a journey to more than twenty drowned cities, in two parts.Part One visits the ones that have been found, mapped and dived: Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus, Cleopatra's royal quarter in Alexandria, Pavlopetri, the Roman pleasure city of Baiae, Port Royal, China's Lion City, the 9,000-year-old village of Atlit Yam, Rungholt, Dunwich, Kekova and Villa Epecu?n.Part Two follows the ones still being searched for, and weighs the evidence honestly: Atlantis, the Yonaguni monument, Dwarka and the Gulf of Cambay, the Black Sea flood, Doggerland, Helike, Kumari Kandam, and the drowned cities of European legend.Inside: - 23 chapters, each marked DISCOVERED or STILL BEING SEARCHED, so you always know where the evidence stands- 40 original maps and diagrams, drawn for this book- What is proved, what is disputed, and who disagrees - no invented certainty- A practical guide to visiting or diving each site- Full references and sources for every chapterSome of these places were myths until someone found them. Others are myths still. This book shows you the difference.
