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.britannica.com/search?query=north%20coast”>north coast near the border with <a href="Denmark”>https://www.thetimes.co.uk/search?source=nav-desktop&q=Denmark”>Denmark. <p class="mol-para-with-font">The astonishing discovery comes more than 660 years after the <a href="town”>https://soundcloud.com/search/sounds?q=town%20sank&filter.license=to_modify_commercially”>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 <a href="punishment”>https://www.dict.cc/?s=punishment”>punishment for the sins of its inhabitants, <a href="penipu”>https://bprsahabattata.co.id/?data=planet88+rtp”>penipu 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 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: <a href="Rungholt”>https://www.buzzfeed.com/search?q=Rungholt”>Rungholt was in North Frisia, the historic region of <a href="north”>https://edition.cnn.com/search?q=north%20Germany”>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”>https://wideinfo.org/?s=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