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

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<p class="mol-para-with-font">For more than half a century, <a href="academics”>https://www.buzznet.com/?s=academics%20wondered”>academics wondered if the German town of <a href="Rungholt”>http://www.techandtrends.com/?s=Rungholt”>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 <a href="mudflats”>https://www.medcheck-up.com/?s=mudflats”>mudflats at North Frisia, the historic region off ‘s 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 Christian legend goes, <a href="bokep”>https://yasarsoft.com/planet-88-1/”>bokep indonesia 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 <a href="trading”>https://www.travelwitheaseblog.com/?s=trading”>trading place.

Pictured, a metal frame allows archaeological excavations of one <a href="square”>https://www.caringbridge.org/search?q=square%20metre”>square metre in the <a href="mud”>https://www.academia.edu/people/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=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: 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 experts at Kiel University, <a href="Johannes”>https://www.ft.com/search?q=Johannes%20Gutenberg”>Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, the Center for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology, and the State Archaeology Department <a href="Schleswig-Holstein”>https://www.search.com/web?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