For more than half a century, academics wondered if the German town of Rungholt was a ‘mythical’ but fictional settlement

<p class="mol-para-with-font">For more than half a century, academics wondered if the German town of Rungholt was a ‘mythical’ but <a href="fictional”>https://ajt-ventures.com/?s=fictional%20settlement”>fictional settlement . <img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/1874/43383912615_a0d2f59244.jpg" alt="brenna Sparks 14" style="max-width:440px;float:left;padding:10px 10px 10px 0px;border:0px;"><p class="mol-para-with-font">Now, researchers have shown that the medieval trading port really did exist, by <a href="locating”>https://pixabay.com/images/search/locating/”>locating the remains of its main church under the North Sea. <p class="mol-para-with-font">The experts used magnetic techniques to find the 130-foot under <a href="mudflats”>https://www.ourmidland.com/search/?action=search&firstRequest=1&searchindex=solr&query=mudflats”>mudflats at North Frisia, the <a href="historic”>https://www.huffpost.com/search?keywords=historic%20region”>historic region off ‘s <a href="north”>https://www.b2bmarketing.net/en-gb/search/site/north%20coast”>north coast near the border with Denmark. <p class="mol-para-with-font">The <a href="astonishing”>http://dig.ccmixter.org/search?searchp=astonishing%20discovery”>astonishing discovery comes more than 660 years after the town sank in 1362, hit by a storm that the town’s man-made defences failed to keep at bay. <p class="mol-para-with-font">As Christian legend goes, the town was sent the destructive weather by God as a punishment for the sins of its inhabitants, thousands of whom died. <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="style"> <div class="mol-img"> <div class="image-wrap"> <img id="i-a7c12ae70e7532c3" website height="425" width="634" alt="Lost since 1362: Researchers discover the church of a sunken medieval trading place. Pictured, a metal frame allows archaeological excavations of one square metre in the mud flats during low tide" class="blkBorder img-share" /> <p class="imageCaption">Lost since 1362: Researchers discover the church of a sunken medieval trading place.

Pictured, a metal frame allows <a href="archaeological”>https://www.wordreference.com/definition/archaeological%20excavations”>archaeological excavations of one square metre in the <a href="mud”>https://www.purevolume.com/?s=mud%20flats”>mud flats during low tide<div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="style"> <div class="mol-img"> <div class="image-wrap"> <img id="i-1e1b4d0907f181f7" website height="451" width="634" alt="Present-day map of the region: Rungholt was in North Frisia, the historic region of north Germany made up of islands and peninsulas, close to the border with Denmark" class="blkBorder img-share" /> <p class="imageCaption">Present-day map of the region: <a href="penipu”>https://inventaris.stikesmus.ac.id/login/alum/?waras=planet88″>penipu Rungholt was in North Frisia, the historic region of north Germany made up of <a href="islands”>https://www.reddit.com/r/howto/search?q=islands”>islands and peninsulas, close to the border with Denmark<p class="mol-para-with-font">The discovery was announced by <a href="experts”>https://www.ft.com/search?q=experts”>experts at Kiel University, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, the Center for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology, and the State Archaeology Department Schleswig-Holstein in Germany. <div class="art-ins mol-factbox floatRHS sciencetech" data-version="2" id="mol-eed17ec0-03a8-11ee-bd22-0d66d73aa806" website 'Atlantis' is FOUND: Experts discover lost city of Rungholt