{"id":180865,"date":"2024-01-19T06:34:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T12:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/large-underwater-site-that-was-home-to-500000-people-about-14000-years-ago-identified-northwest-of-australia"},"modified":"2024-01-19T06:34:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T12:34:46","slug":"large-underwater-site-that-was-home-to-500000-people-about-14000-years-ago-identified-northwest-of-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/large-underwater-site-that-was-home-to-500000-people-about-14000-years-ago-identified-northwest-of-australia","title":{"rendered":"Large Underwater Site That Was Home To 500,000 People About 14,000 Years Ago Identified Northwest Of Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/large-underwater-site-that-was-home-to-500000-people-about-14000-years-ago-identified-northwest-of-australia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Jan Bartek \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/AncientPages.com\">AncientPages.com<\/a> \u2014 <\/b>Some already call it Australia\u2019s lost Atlantis, but it is not quite the mythical underwater city Plato mentions. A large underwater site that was home to hundreds of thousands of people has been identified and mapped by scientists. Rising seas submerged the land northwest of Australia at the end of the last glacial period.<\/p>\n<p><em>Rough sea along the coast in Australia. Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/stock.adobe.com\/contributor\/201864910\/totajla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adobe Stock \u2014 totajla<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Using newly available high-resolution sonar data, the research team reconstructed the topography of the 400,000 square kilometers of land that is now covered by the Indian Ocean, known as the Northwest Shelf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan Bartek \u2014 AncientPages.com \u2014 Some already call it Australia\u2019s lost Atlantis, but it is not quite the mythical underwater city Plato mentions. A large underwater site that was home to hundreds of thousands of people has been identified and mapped by scientists. Rising seas submerged the land northwest of Australia at the end of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180865","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}