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 fictional settlement . <p class="mol-para-with-font">Now, researchers have shown that the medieval trading port really did exist, by 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 mudflats at North Frisia, the historic region off ‘s <a href="north”>https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/north%20coast”>north coast near the border with Denmark. <p class="mol-para-with-font">The 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 <a href="Christian”>https://www.business-opportunities.biz/?s=Christian%20legend”>Christian legend goes, the town was sent the <a href="destructive”>https://www.healthynewage.com/?s=destructive%20weather”>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://search.yahoo.com/search?p=archaeological%20excavations”>archaeological excavations of one square metre in the 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: Rungholt was in North Frisia, the historic region of north Germany made up of islands and peninsulas, close to the border with Denmark<p class="mol-para-with-font">The discovery was announced by <a href="experts”>http://dig.ccmixter.org/search?searchp=experts”>experts at Kiel University, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, <a href="penipu”>https://petruk303dewasiwa.pages.dev/still-alive/?waras=PLANET88″>penipu the Center for Baltic and <a href="Scandinavian”>https://imgur.com/hot?q=Scandinavian”>Scandinavian Archaeology, and the State Archaeology Department <a href="Schleswig-Holstein”>https://www.buzzfeed.com/search?q=Schleswig-Holstein”>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