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Europe’s Oldest Megastructure Discovered: 12,000-year-old Wall Submerged in the Baltic Sea

In fall 2021, geologists made an unusual discovery in Mecklenburg Bight bay in Germany – a nearly kilometer-long row of stones on the seafloor. Located about 10 km from Rerik at a depth of 21 meters, the site contained approximately 1,500 stones arranged in such a regular pattern that a natural origin seemed unlikely. A […]

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Bradford and Aarhus Universities to Search for Lost Civilizations Under Baltic and North Seas

Scientists are about to embark on an exciting project to map the seafloors of the Baltic Sea and North Sea. Led by Professor Vince Gaffney at the University of Bradford’s Submerged Landscapes Research Center, the project has received over 8 million euros in funding. Bradford University is one of four key partners in this collaboration […]