Saturday, December 20, 2014

Underwater Archeology of the Future

The bronze statue now known as "Victorious Youth" was dredged up out of the Adriatic Sea.  It likely was created to commemorate the original Olympic Games held in Greece about 2300 years ago. Underwater archeology at shipwreck sites and at ancient cities that have sunk beneath the waves, like ancient Alexandria in Egypt, has been incredibly successful

Soon underwater archeology will have entirely new cities to study. With sealevel   projected  to rise by 5 m in the next 85-200 years, low lying parts of cities like New York, Los Angeles, Dublin, Lisbon, London, and Barcelona will slowly and inevitably eventually be under water

What will future archeologists find when they study the drowned cities of the 22nd century?   Will they find immortal art treasures like Victorious Youth?  Or will they find rusted hulks of millions of sbsndoned cars clustered around thousands of submerged McDonalds and drowned WalMarts

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