{"id":177558,"date":"2023-12-06T20:23:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T02:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/ancient-chinese-city-found-perfectly-preserved-at-the-bottom-of-a-lake"},"modified":"2023-12-06T20:23:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T02:23:44","slug":"ancient-chinese-city-found-perfectly-preserved-at-the-bottom-of-a-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/ancient-chinese-city-found-perfectly-preserved-at-the-bottom-of-a-lake","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Chinese city found perfectly preserved at the bottom of a lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ancient-chinese-city-found-perfectly-preserved-at-the-bottom-of-a-lake.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O.o!!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Submerged beneath a manmade lake in <a data-linked-post=\"2662293861\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/news\/china-heatwave-highest-temperature-ever\">China<\/a> lies a forgotten city, dubbed by experts as \u201cChina\u2019s Atlantis\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The underwater city, known as the <a data-linked-post=\"2656370461\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/viral\/liza-minnelli-three-lions-sooz-kempner-b1878361\">Lion<\/a> City or Shi Cheng, is hidden 40 metres beneath the surface of Qiandao Lake in eastern China.<\/p>\n<p>In 2001, officials discovered \u2013 or rediscovered \u2013 that the metropolis had been perfectly preserved after years underwater, and by 2017 had opened it up as a diving site for <a data-linked-post=\"2656392344\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/news\/american-tourist-discovers-wetherspoons-for-the-first-time\">tourists<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O.o!! Submerged beneath a manmade lake in China lies a forgotten city, dubbed by experts as \u201cChina\u2019s Atlantis\u201d The underwater city, known as the Lion City or Shi Cheng, is hidden 40 metres beneath the surface of Qiandao Lake in eastern China. In 2001, officials discovered \u2013 or rediscovered \u2013 that the metropolis had been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}