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Ancient Sunken City Discovered Off Shores of Cuba. Maybe

Posted by Hemos on from the it's-not-frickin'-atlantis dept.

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.

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  1. Atlantis at last! by Bonkers54 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm just assuming they just forgot to mention the large bubble over the entire city and the people/aliens who populate it.

  2. carbon dating? by Transient0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    >but I do wonder how they assigned the date "of >at least 6000 years ago" to this.

    no doubt by checking the log files on their mainframes, silly.

    don't you know that any newly discovered ancient civilization is bound to have been centuries ahead of it's time in technology. don't you watch movies?

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    1. Re:carbon dating? by Doctor+Memory · · Score: 4, Funny

      Dating is a very difficult part of archaeology

      And here I thought only us computer geeks had trouble getting a date!

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  3. odd wording... by Skeezix · · Score: 4, Funny
    in the BBC article:

    they have discovered what they think are the ruins of a submerged city built thousands of years ago.

    Are they implying that the city was submerged when it was actually populated? Or did they mean to say "submerged ruins of a city built thousands of years ago."

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  4. politics by zerocool^ · · Score: 5, Funny


    They're still waiting for the government to appropriate funds to provide adequate drainage. The problem is that this would require a government-sponsered lottery. I guess the right-wingers decided they'd rather be all wet.

    ~z

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    1. Re:politics by gmhowell · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, the problem is that the tree-huggers are citing wetlands violations.

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  5. Three words... by pgaffney · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shadow...Over.....Innsmouth

  6. Not that old by rjamestaylor · · Score: 4, Funny
    It's not that old, really, it's just that being in the water for long makes you so wrinkly you look a lot older...

    An aside: I never thought I'd see the day when this link would be on topic for Slashdot...

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  7. Re:Ahh...lets see Volcano...earth quake...ect by blamanj · · Score: 4, Funny

    You do know that Yosemitie National Park is on top of one the "super" volcano's. I mean if the thing blew again there is a chance it would cause massive loss of life, they are talking 3ft of ash 3000 miles away.

    You misspelled Yellowstone.