The undersea landscape once walked by the Hvar was found in the waters near Croatia's second-largest Split, where Dr Fitch traveled in March 2023 to initiate this first-ever seafloor scanning using state-of-the-art underwater 3D seismic sensors.
"It's a more diverse landscape and it's better preserved than we expected," according to geo-archaeologist Dr Simon Fitch, the new project's lead investigator.
"The unique environment of the area around Split, which is quite sheltered, has preserved a lot of it," he said.
The city, known as Soline, was built on an artificial landmass by the ancient Hvar culture - but began to slowly sink off the coast of what is now Croatia as sea levels rose with the melting glaciers of the last Ice Age.
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