World's oldest submerged town dates back 5,000 years (w/ Video)

Friday, October 16, 2009 - 09:07 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Archaeologists surveying the world's oldest submerged town have found ceramics dating back to the Final Neolithic. Their discovery suggests that Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast of Greece, was occupied some 5,000 years ago -- at least 1,200 years earlier than originally thought.

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