Image shows a lightweight survey vehicle that provides large-scale magnetic mapping of cultural traces hidden beneath the present-day tidal flat surface, undated photo. Researchers found a sunken church in a settlement in North Frisia, modern Germany. Note: Licensed content. (Dirk Bienen-Scholt/Newsflash)
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29 May 2023
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The church of a lost medieval city known as the 'Atlantis of the North Sea' after it was destroyed in a huge flood more than 600 years ago as plague-stricken residents were too weak to fortify its levees has been rediscovered. Rungholt was part of the Danish Duchy of Schleswig. In 1362, the...