In ancient times, the Doggerland was home to Mesolithic tribes in the North Sea. By the 15th century the once thriving city with its cathedrals, houses, and port structures was washed under water. For long the city had been dealing with rough weather and at one point it resulted in serious erosion. Now a tiny fishing village with only over a 100 people, Dunwich was once the 10th largest city in England almost as big as London today. Later the area got flooded and today bows the Willow Groves sit in the bottom of a crystal clear lake.ĭunwich was a port city and was once a religious centre where Christians came to set off for the Crusades. Soon the government set their eyes on the picturesque place and began building dams. During the World War most of the men went to the frontiers and died. The town had everything you’d expect to see in a town, church, grocery store and apparently one of the largest schools in the area. Located in the murky depths of Dale Hollow Lake, the once thriving town – Willow Grove got its name from the trees that bordered the area. Today some say the castle tops are sometimes seen peeking out from the water. Generations later the curse started to take effect when the waves slowly gulped the castle where they lived. On the night after the wedding the noble man’s ghost came and cursed the couple. He came before the lord and told him that he won the collar in a fair fight and married the woman he loved. He stabbed a nobleman on his back and stole his gold collar. The man wanting to be with his love and he made a plan. The story goes that a lord’s daughter fell in love with a common man. Regarded as Wales’ Atlantis, Tyno Helig is sometime considered part legend and part of it is based on reality. Today the revolutionary town lies at the pit of a man-made lake. Decades later a dam was built near the town to deal with droughts but in the 1970s it ended up flooding what remained of the place. After about a year of struggle with a few successes impressive resistance, when the uprising came to an end on 5th October 1897, story goes that there was only one child, one old man and two adults left. There were suspicions that a preacher named Antonio the Counselor was organising an uprising with poor farmers and slaves against the government. This small Brazilian town has got a quiet a history. Today we bring you 10 lost underwater cities of the ancient world that were once lost in time but has been discovered and are being explored. But unlike this fictional island there are several real lost cities buried under layers of water waiting to be discovered. We’ve all heard of the legend of Atlantis – the once great city, submerged under water, unseen yet eerily compelling.
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