This is BIZARRE..

After 1,200 years they discovered these fascinating Egyptian artifacts.  This city was swallowed by the Mediterranean.  And apparently it goes by two different names, depending on the civilization referencing it, whether Greek or Egyptian.  The city and artifacts were discovered 150 feet below the surface a little over 10 years ago.

Here is a bit more information by an expert in the field:

Zvi Ben-Avraham, of Tel Aviv University, and Emanuele Lodolo of the National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics in Trieste, Italy, wrote in the Journal of Archaeological Science: ‘There are no reasonable known natural processes that may produce these elements’.

The monolith was discovered 131ft (40 metres) below the waves on what was once an island called Pantelleria Vecchia Bank in the Sicilian Channel.

What do you think this was used for?  And do you think the civilization who built it had help or at the very least was way more technologically advanced than we give them credit for?

And this is a really interesting related video on underwater discoveries.

Keep an eye out for further updates on this recent monolith!

thanks to dailymail.co.uk for the great info

And in a more recent artifact that was also discovered, this 16th century shipwreck has gotten a lot of attention.  When it comes to ships the titanic is the most famous but there are a lot of others like this one with plenty of interesting info about the past:

An unidentified 16th century shipwreck was discovered on the Little Bahama Bank in 1991. Questions abounded. Was it one of Columbus ships? Was it carrying conquistadors? Or was it a lost Spanish treasure galleon? Through a cooperative effort involving archaeologists from the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum of Key West, Florida, the shipwreck salvage company St. Johns Expeditions, and the Government of the Bahamas, this remarkable time capsule has become the subject of an intensive research effort. With continuing detective work and problem solving, the story of this sunken mystery ship is emerging.