These 10,000 Year-Old Sunken Ancient Ruins in Japan Remain a Huge Mystery

[Buster's Uncle]

These 10,000 Year-Old Sunken Ancient Ruins in Japan Remain a Huge Mystery
Mic
By Jessica Eggert  22 hours ago



There's a mysterious 10,000-year-old massive underwater monument off the coast of Japan.



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It's called the Yonaguni Monument, located off the coast of Yonaguni, the southernmost of the Ryukyu Islands, and scholars have yet to figure out whether it's man-made or natural.



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But an expert told National Geographic the structures found in the monument by divers suggest it was man-made in Asian culture.

"The characters and animal monuments in the water, which I have been able to partially recover in my laboratory, suggest the culture comes from the Asian continent," he said.



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Experts have discovered 10 distinct structures in the area that could be ruins of an ancient city.



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Decades of research by scuba divers shows the sunken city likely submerged at once during a massive earthquake of sorts.



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Divers have found evidence of ruins of a castle, triumphal arch, five temples and a stadium.



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They call it the "Japanese Atlantis."



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Dr. Robert M. Schoch, a Boston University professor who's conducted field research at ancient sites in Egypt as well, believes it could be a natural formation. "We should also consider the possibility that the Yonaguni Monument is fundamentally a natural structure that was used, enhanced, and modified by humans in ancient times," he wrote in his book Voices of the Rocks.


http://news.yahoo.com/10-000-old-sunken-ancient-210700089.html

[Mart]

Antediluvian ruins, most likely. We may never know.
I have heard about it from Graham Hancock tv series some years ago.
There was also a guess, that after the Flood people were building cities, but after water dropped, because there was few hundred years of cold period, which locked some water in ice, then later melted bringing ocean levels again up by these 500 feet or so, as they mention. So now we can find ruins under water like these 100-150 meters deep.

However, many ancient buildings are simply too advanced for crude technologies we think there were available in "cavemen" era.
Below is link to that Graham Hancock series, it starts from Yonaguni, actually.

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[Buster's Uncle]

I smell a rat, actually.  I've seen pictures/videos of this site a thousand times, and yet nobody bothered with the first or last structures pictured before - which would have tended to remove all doubt.  That's one heck of an oversight - Mic has been had, I guess.

[Unorthodox]

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[Unorthodox]

I smell a rat, actually.  I've seen pictures/videos of this site a thousand times, and yet nobody bothered with the first or last structures pictured before - which would have tended to remove all doubt.  That's one heck of an oversight - Mic has been had, I guess.

They appear rather dubious as well.  What is with your yahoo science articles today? 

[Buster's Uncle]

Beats me.

What's with the sound on that vid you posted?

[Unorthodox]

uh...I just posted the first one to pop up...no sound here unless I make some effort.

It does sound silly, best guess is altered to avoid copyright issues.  If you got a streaming service, try to look that episode up.  He analyzes it in context with existing structures of similar age on dry land in the surrounding islands, which is something most don't do.