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Ancient Sunken City Discovered Off Shores of Cuba. Maybe
King Africa writes "Explorers using a miniature submarine to probe the sea floor off the coast of Cuba said on Thursday they had confirmed the discovery of stone structures deep below the ocean surface that may have been built by an unknown human civilization thousands of years ago.
The explorers said they believed the mysterious structures, discovered at the astounding depth of around 2,100 feet and laid out like an urban area, could have been built at least 6,000 years ago. That would be about 1,500 years earlier than the great Giza pyramids of Egypt. " The BBC has a bit more substantative article on this as well - but I do wonder how they assigned the date "of at least 6000 years ago" to this.
As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( http://www.lds.org ) I was instantly intrigued by this finding. In the Book of Mormon it tells of great destruction in ancient America wherein
"...the city of Moroni did sink into the depths of the sea..." (3 Nephi 8:9 pg. 422).
"And Many great and notable cities were sunk..." (ibid. verse 14).
It just confirms my belief in the truth of the Book of Mormon further. For more info. on the church also check out http://www.mormon.org
-Jim
It should be 'interesting'. Even if you don't agree with it, it's concise and well written, on topic, provides new information related to the topic, as well as not provoking flames. I hope the moderator who marked it 'flaimbait' got meta-moderated down.
Yeesh.