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'Tsunami-sunk' Roman ruins discovered in Tunisia
« on: September 01, 2017, 11:32:00 am »
'Tsunami-sunk' Roman ruins discovered in Tunisia
August 31, 2017
 

Vast underwater Roman ruins have been discovered off northeast Tunisia, apparently confirming a theory that the city of Neapolis was partly submerged by a tsunami in the 4th century AD.

"It's a major discovery," Mounir Fantar, the head of a Tunisian-Italian archaeological mission which made the find off the coast of Nabeul, told AFP.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-08-tsunami-sunk-roman-tunisia.html#jCp