The sunken city of Pavlopetri is the stuff of myths. Just a dozen feet beneath the sea off the coast of Laconia, Greece, her ruins were thought to have originated from the Mycenaean period, but today are thought to be far older—preceding even the Bronze Age.
Predating even Greek philosopher Plato, who told of the lost city of Atlantis’s sinking beneath the wine-dark sea, Pavlopetri, some have suggested, could have been what Plato meant.
Reports of a lost city surfaced in 1904 when geologist Fokion Negri announced the discovery of Pavlopetri in between southern Laconia’s Pounta coast and the island of Elafonisos—just a stone’s throw from the beach….