Tag: Sunken

Lake Lanier (named after Confederate soldier Sidney Lanier) in Forsyth County, GA, is a popular recreational spot 42 miles north of Atlanta. Beneath is what used to be a town called Oscarville, a thriving, predominantly black community until 1912. That year, two black teens were accused of r...

The enigma of Thonis-Heracleion, Egypt’s long-lost port city, has tantalized historians and archaeologists for centuries. Submerged under the Mediterranean, its legends endured even when its physical traces did not. The city’s discovery in 2000 by underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio w...