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, academics wondered if the German town of Rungholt was a <a href="‘mythical”>https://openclipart.org/search/?query=%27mythical%27″>’mythical‘ but fictional settlement . <p class="mol-para-with-font">Now, researchers have shown that the medieval trading port really did exist, by <a href="locating”>https://www.gov.uk/search/all?keywords=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 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, 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.flickr.com/search/?q=trading”>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://kscripts.com/?s=Rungholt”>Rungholt was in North Frisia, the <a href="historic”>https://www.purevolume.com/?s=historic%20region”>historic region of north Germany made up of <a href="islands”>https://www.hometalk.com/search/posts?filter=islands”>islands and peninsulas, close to the border with Denmark<p class="mol-para-with-font">The <a href="discovery”>https://www.cbsnews.com/search/?q=discovery”>discovery was announced by experts at Kiel University, Johannes Gutenberg <a href="University”>https://www.homeclick.com/search.aspx?search=University”>University Mainz, the Center for Baltic and <a href="bokep”>https://cndinitiatives.org/pelanet88-12/”>bokep indonesia Scandinavian Archaeology, and the State <a href="Archaeology”>https://www.paramuspost.com/search.php?query=Archaeology%20Department&type=all&mode=search&results=25″>Archaeology Department <a href="Schleswig-Holstein”>https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=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<img src="https://dkzary.pl/assets/media/2014/05/jpg-1117.jpg" style="max-width:400px;float:left;padding:10px 10px 10px 0px;border:0px;">