National Geographic Magazine will sponsor another
underwater exploration of the sunken city off the Coast of
Cuba this fall. Russian-Canadian oceanographer Pauline
Zelitsky will head the expedition. Political differences prevent
the US from participating, and much of the work has been
done by France and Russia. So far, the exploration has been
done by remote-controlled mini submarines, armed with video
cameras. Their provocative images have shown what look like
stepped pyramids, extending as far as South America (where
these types of pyramids were built by the Mayans).
Zelitsky's theory is that a peninsula once stretched from the
Yucatan to Cuba, which collapsed due to seismic activity.
This reinforces the theory that early man did not arrive in the
Americas by crossing the Bering Straits (a land bridge from
Russia which no longer exists) but instead arrived from Asia
via the Pacific Ocean. British archeologists have found human
footprints in Puebla, Mexico that are 40,000 years old. On her
early expeditions, Zelitsky discovered an underwater city with
not only pyramids, but geometrically precise passages,
tunnels and temples, many carved with ancient symbols.
Since natural structures can be pyramid-shaped and have
straight lines as well, these carvings are especially important.
There is still controversy about whether the underwater
pyramid off the coast of an island in Japan was manmade or
is a natural formation.
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