LONDON: The deep sea can reveal lots of never-before seen animals and other marine life forms from whale-eating scavenger shrimps to multicolored corals to a structure that represents ancient civilization.
Underwater off the coast of Sicily lies an ancient monolith that is structured similarly to the Stonehenge.
Archaeologists found the ancient structure broken in parts, about 3.2 feet long and with a regular shape. The structure has three similarly-sized holes – one at the end, which crosses it from part to part, and the other two at the two sides of the huge stone structure. The monolith is situated deep under water at a depth of 131 feet.
According to Zvi Ben-Avraham at Tel Aviv University’s Department of Earth Sciences and Emanuele Lodolo from Italy’s National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics in Trieste, there are no possible natural occurrences that may have led to the formation of the structure, to their knowledge.
Lodolo also noted that the structure weighs some 15 tons and was made from a single block of stone that was cut, extracted, transported and installed. This sheds light on the technical and engineering skills ancient humans applied to build the monolith.
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