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Discovery In Adriatic
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LONDON, January 18.
An Australian-born underwater explorer, Captain Edward FalconBaker, has just returned to London after discovering a “lost city” beneath the sea, according to the “Evening News’’ diarist. It is the city of Illyria Epidauros which has been submerged beneath the Adriatic for nearly 2000 years. Captain Falcon-Baker told the diarist it had been a most fascinating and archaeologically rewarding expedition.
The city was founded in 689 B.C. and was besieged by Octavius during civil war.
Then it was attacked by marauding Huns and in 360 A.D. subsided beneath the sea as the result of a tidal wave.
Captain Falcon-Baker said his team made 1685 dives in three months and mapped the remains of the paved streets and wall ruins.
They brought up more than 200 separate items, ranging from broken pots to coins and an eroded statue. The story will be told in a book, “1700 Years Under the Sea,” the captain is writing.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29107, 20 January 1960, Page 16
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