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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. 1st by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1st

  2. First Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Atlantis, anyone?
    At least I hope this is FP. Gotta wait 20 seconds....

  3. First POst by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    W00t

  4. 6000 years ago... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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

    You probably have to go back 6000 years to a time where the ocean wasn't on top of that city :)

  5. Re:Under the sea. by flewp · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    And she'd have to put up with my crabs--eeeeerrr, nevermind.

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  6. Re:An LDS view... by simetra · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Ok. They should find a corral there, where Jesus had the rodeo, like in the funny color pictures in the middle of the Book of Mormon.

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  7. An LSD view... by scorcherer · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    "...the comment of Moron did sink into the depths of /dev/null"

    "And Many great and notable trolls were sunk..."

    It just confirms my belief in the truth of the Book of Slashdot further. For more info. on the church also check out http://www.moron.org

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  8. That would work.. by multipartmixed · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    ..until I poured hot grits down your pipe.

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