Google Maps left viewers stunned as the Street View team seemingly discovered a historical gem deep in the sea bed. The website is usually a top notch go-to for locating particular routes, roads or geographical areas. Often, it will feature hilarious caught-in-the-moment images as people go about their daily lives, and, unbeknown to them, the team will arrive unannounced and catch them in the act. Yet new images have emerged of an abandoned spot of sea bed, which is claimed to represent the lost city of Atlantis.
Atlantis is a strong naval power, a counterweight to the land-based ancient city of Athens.
The underwater state is said to be submerged in the Atlantic Ocean, the exact place where Google’s latest images were taken.
This dramatic fall of the empire is said to have happened in 6,000BC after its residents failed to conquer Greek city, Athens.
Yet, as it is a fictional creation by philosopher Plato, the scenes instead could be explained by something a little more ordinary.
The team tracked the apparent shadows, the size of Wales, on the Atlantic Ocean floor.
They were located right in the middle of the ocean, with the closest country as Morocco.
The images, shaded in a dark blue, appeared to highlight a series of vertical and horizontal lines which appeared a convincing forgotten city.
On certain shots, crater-like humps also featured.
Yet, unfortunately for believers of Plato’s nautical republic, the images were revealed as something completely different.
Website bt.com reports the deep lines were, in fact, “a tech glitch caused by data gathering techniques, which involve tracking the path of boats.”
Theorists have long believed Atlantis is, in fact, real and hidden beneath the waves of the sea.
An aeronautcial engineer claimed these images appeared like an "aerial map" of a city.
Meanwhile, Dr Charles Orser, curator of historical archaeology at New York State University told The Sun that the find was fascinating and warranted further inspection.
"The site is one of the most prominent places for the proposed location of Atlantis, as described by Plato," the Atlantis expert said.
"Even if it turns out to be geographical, it definitely deserves a closer look."
Meanwhile, in a completely separate incident, one of the world’s largest shipwrecks was revealed in a shock incident.
The Google Street View and Google Earth cameras voyaged to Sudan and tracked down the S.S. Jassim, a Bolivian cargo ferry, still settled in the waters.
The vessel had and sunk on the Wingate Reef off the coast of Sudan in 2003.
It is now claimed to be one of the largest shipwrecks that can be seen on Google Earth.
Shots show the huge white ship lying in the waters on its side, perhaps still in the exact position where it capsized.
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