Remains of 7,000-year-old sunken stone road discovered off Croatia’s coast

The submerged ruins of a 7,000-year-old street are hiding underwater off the coast of the Croatian island of Korčula. The Neolithic construction as soon as linked the island to an historical, synthetic landmass.

Archaeologists introduced the invention of the “unusual buildings” in a Might 6 submit on Fb (opens in new tab), describing them because the stays of a roadway that are actually submerged about 16 toes (5 meters) beneath the Adriatic Sea. The street consists of “fastidiously stacked stone plates” measuring roughly 13 toes (4 m) large. The stone pavers had been buried by mud over the millennia. Archaeologists suppose the stone roadway was constructed by the Hvar, a misplaced maritime tradition that resided within the space throughout the Neolithic interval (6000 B.C. to circa 3000 B.C.).