re: Ancient civilizations. Y or N?

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Listen to that Rogan program, there has been extensive underwater exploration and all evidence discovered points to hunter gatherer settlements and nothing ‘advanced’

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There have been over 100 what we think were cities found but I wouldn't say "extensive" exploration has been done. Most of what we know about have been in the Mediterranean and have been relatively shallow and from what I would call recent on the geological timescale. We don't know if there are more that have been totally buried in silt or by tectonic movements or just too deep for our current technology. It is frequently said we know more about the surface of the moon than the seabed.

What we have found are still not well researched due to how hard it is to work underwater, currents move and destroy artifacts, sedimentation buries things beyond our ability to excavate them and the seawater destroys metals.

All of this just illustrates the point made in the first post. All of the experts were so sure they had it figured out and then Gobeki Tepe was discovered and reset the status quo. It would be hubris of a high order to think similar discoveries aren't waiting to reset the status quo in the future.