12 Lost Cities Found Underwater — One Still Can't Be Explained

12 lost cities discovered underwater, from Egypt's "Atlantis" Heracleion to a pirate city that sank in minutes and the mysterious Yonaguni Monument in Japan. Real sunken cities, real underwater archaeology, and one that scientists still argue about. For more than 2,000 years, Heracleion existed only in ancient books, until divers found its giant statues on the seabed off Egypt. In this underwater archaeology documentary we explore 12 sunken cities and ancient ruins under the sea: Thonis-Heracleion and Cleopatra's royal palace in Alexandria (Egypt), Pavlopetri, one of the oldest submerged towns in the world (Greece), Port Royal, the "wickedest city on Earth", destroyed by the 1692 earthquake (Jamaica), Shicheng, the Lion City under Qiandao Lake (China), the Roman resort of Baiae, swallowed by the Campi Flegrei volcano (Italy), Neapolis, lost to the 365 AD tsunami (Tunisia), the 9,000-year-old village of Atlit Yam with its underwater stone circle, the Seven Pagodas legend of Mahabalipuram revealed by the 2004 tsunami (India), the drowned ghost town of Villa Epecuén (Argentina), Dunwich, the medieval town that fell into the sea (England), and the Yonaguni Monument: natural rock or a man-made lost civilization? (Japan) ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:37 #1 Heracleion – Egypt's Lost City 3:05 #2 Pavlopetri – Greece 5:03 #3 Port Royal – The Pirate City That Sank 7:07 #4 Shicheng, the Lion City – China 8:57 #5 Baiae – Italy 10:46 #6 Cleopatra's Palace – Alexandria 12:23 #7 Neapolis – Tunisia 13:51 #8 Atlit Yam – Carmel Coast 15:38 #9 Mahabalipuram – India 16:58 #10 Villa Epecuén – Argentina 18:43 #11 Dunwich – England 20:10 #12 Yonaguni Monument – Japan 22:00 Which city would you dive to? 💬 If you could dive to just one of these lost cities, which would it be? And is Yonaguni natural or man-made? Tell me in the comments. 🔔 Subscribe to NOXA for more lost civilizations, ancient mysteries and places history forgot. Note: some scenes are illustrated reconstructions of historical events. 📷 Footage: Pexels (Pexels License). Sound effects: Pixabay. Photos: Wikimedia Commons, under their licenses: Melkov (CC0) · Ruthven (CC0) · Gafotos (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Santiago matamoro (CC BY 3.0) · Simon Burchell (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Norbert Nagel (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Miguel Hermoso Cuesta (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Mediatus (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Daniel Ventura (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Joe Mabel (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Richard Mortel (CC BY 2.0) · ChasingMeToo (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Raychristofer (CC BY-SA 4.0) · De Geo (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Pauloleong2002 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · EditQ (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Vyacheslav Argenberg (CC BY 4.0) · Rainer Halama (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Syedashiqpasha (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Rangan Datta Wiki (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Peter Jeffery, Geographer, Michael Garlick, Colin Park (geograph.org.uk, CC BY-SA 2.0) · 国土地理院 GSI Japan · public domain: UK Hydrographic Office, NASA JSC, Jan Luyken, Popular Graphic Arts, Internet Archive Book Images. #lostcities #underwatercities #ancientmysteries