2023-05-11 20:29:39
A team of researchers from University of Zadar, Croatia, discovered a road at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea that dates back approximately 7,000 years old.
As the authors of this surprising and valuable underwater find explained in a statement, the highway it linked the coasts of Soline with the current island of Korčula, while the finding was possible from some images taken, from a satellite, of the waters that are located in the vicinity of the aforementioned island in which they noticed the existence of a strange structure which caught their attention.
Curiosity to know what it was about made the team led by Professor Mate Parica submerged in the depths of the Mediterranean Sea, and it was so, once there, the archaeologists discovered that it was a street approximately four meters wide which, as they explained, was built with carefully stacked stone slabs.
“After analyzing these remains, and subjecting them to a radiocarbon analysis we were able to determine that People walked on this road almost 7,000 years ago.”said the archaeologist.
Although it is currently considered one of the more than 1,200 islands and islets of Croatia, Korčula cobegan to flood as a result of melting of the Earth’s ice captherefore, towards year 6,000 BCthe back then archipelago became an island.
“From then on, cultures like the Hvar They worked on the construction of all kinds of roads with the aim of reaching this region to exploit their natural resources. Undoubtedly an impressive finding that can help us further understand how the Hvar culture worked and how they developed a unique way of workingParica concluded.
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