Welcome to watch Mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 discovered underwater cities.

Archaeologists now know that the roman city was not the scene of sudden death.

Like a neighboring pompeii, It's located actually within a wall of a settlement which was quite common in the bronze age.

70 ft beneath the waves lay the remains of what appeared to be an underwater metropolis.

For this list, we're looking at ancient buildings, sculptures and other structures that made up ancient cities that have now been discovered underwater.

We won't include cities that were well known in modern times before being flooded.

Did you know about any of these underwater cities let us know in the comments number 10, Vana Gloria Greece.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited an excavation site of the ancient greek town of phantasmagoria.

Founded in 5 43.

Bc Vana Gloria was a significant colony of ancient Greece.

Located in the Taman peninsula.

It was once the capital of old Great Bulgaria has a massive market and trading post.

It served much of the traffic between the black and Caspian seas after a series of conflicts and invasions.

The city was left in ruins and metric A was built on top of it.

However, it was then rediscovered in the 18th century and an archaeological dig began in 18 22.

Today about a third of the ancient city can be found underwater and research about the area is ongoing.

Number nine Takina South America Lake Titicaca is located in South America between Bolivia and Peru.

Not only is it the largest of its kind in the region, it's also home to an ancient civilization located beneath the waters of the lake, muffled for centuries.

Each stone becomes a chronicle hinting at civilizations that predate even the inca discovered in 2000 and eight.

Thousands of items including gold and ceramics have been discovered, but only a handful have been retrieved to the surface.

According to research, the ancient artifacts belonging to the pre inca Taiwan.

Aku civilizations which were believed to be quite dominant at one time, the bolivian government plans to build an underwater museum at one of the more significant locations known as Santiago de Oh, he elia, and perhaps beneath the rocks and the mud lie other secrets still waiting to be disclosed.

Number eight Olympus Greece Apparently Greece was a popular place for ancient sunken civilizations.

The second greek city on our list, Olympus was a city of ancient Crete at its peak.

Olas was said to be home to 40,000 people and there are contradictory reports as to how exactly the city fell from volcanic eruptions to the natural sinking of the landscape.

The details continue to be somewhat of a mystery today.

The remains of the city can be found near the island of Crete Greece.

Visitors can actually visit the city by swimming out to Ellen dobey excavation and research of the ruins are ongoing to this day.

Number seven Pablo Petrie Greece in 1967.

The submerged remains of a prehistoric town were found by nick Fleming, then a young oceanographer from the University of Southampton.

Rounding off our hat trick of greek sunken cities, we find ourselves at Pablo Petrie far older than the others previously mentioned.

These ancient ruins are estimated to be about 5000 years old.

It's also notable because of how much of it has been preserved with entire structures, tombs and more found intact.

It's one of the oldest snapshots of a city ever discovered underwater.

It's about 80% of them appear to be early bronze age and that actually makes this settlement all the more important, multiple earthquakes and ever rising.

Sea levels are believed to have been the cause of this town's demise.

Originally discovered in 1967, the ruins have become a unesco site where further research continues.

Probably now Pablo Petty is the most surveyed bit of seabed in the world.

Number six athlete Yam Israel, about an hour north of tel Aviv.

Israel is a small town called athlete.

It's just off the shore's where you can find the remains of Athlete.

Yam And almost 9000 year old Sunken Neolithic village settlement.

Although shipwrecks and other settlements had been discovered near here.

It was in 1984 when Ehud Galili uncovered more than just one old boat houses and a well were found.

But the most notable discovery was that of a stone circle made of 7 £1300 large prehistoric stones.

The layout of these megaliths suggests they may have been part of some type of water ritual.

A full size human skeleton was even found.

That gave researchers an in depth look at life during that era.

You see the village is 40,000 square meters.

Using formation was gathered after 25 years of exposure.

Number five.

The ancient city of Body Italy.

It's been described as the Las Vegas of the Roman Empire.

The wealthy came here to engage in whatever prohibited activity they chose essentially a resort town.

It could be found about 19 miles from Naples Italy.

However, over time the city disappeared into the water due to the unique properties of the Earth's surface in the area.

It was then discovered in the 1940s, which eventually led to an official underwater survey in the 1960s.

The unique underwater pressure in the region has literally raised and lowered by again and again, much like a song stuck on repeat.

The area is now a marine protected area.

As more research continues.

Number four Warka India excavations off the west coast of India have led to what may be one of India's most amazing discoveries in the indian book of Mahabharata.

A story is told of how Krishna moved the capital from Matara.

Tude Warka to escape countless battles with Gyros and like many religious texts, some perceived the tales written within the Mahabharata to be less than factual.

However, scientists discovered underwater archaeological remains in the gulf of camby.

Scholars declared these ruins to be the remains of the ancient and legendary city of Burkha.

This incredible find appeared to give credence towards the tales written in the religious text.

Walls, bones, pottery and other items were recovered and surprised scientists when they learned the ruins were over 9000 years old.

All previous discoveries within the region had dated back 4000 years, signifying that the culture in that region was far older than originally suspected.

Over the next eight years, his excavations eventually uncovered the remains of a sprawling city of around 10,000 people.

Number three support Royal Jamaica on june 7th 16 92 a region's largest city was destroyed by an earthquake and an accompanying tsunami.

Prior to that, it was a haven for real pirates in the Caribbean, A great grandfather to sin City.

This was a place that was all about excess.

Clergyman preached this catastrophe of biblical proportions was God's punishment for ports Royals, wicked ways.

The real pirates of the age spent much of their loot engaging in whatever they chose.

Yet a force of nature wipe that slate clean and gave us an incredible sunken pirate city that remains just underwater.

This is really a spectacular, spectacular view between the city and several 100 sunken ships in the area.

It is a window into a world of debauchery from centuries ago, a small version of what it looked like a miniature scale Number two, the Yonaguni monument, japan human made or naturally occurring.

This is a debate that has been going on since the Yonaguni monument was first discovered in the mid 19 eighties.

A massive complex of stone formations lay hidden a mere 60 ft beneath the ocean surface at 165 ft or 50 m long and 65 ft or 20 m wide.

It certainly commands attention by its size referred to as the japanese Atlantis.

Some believe it to be a relic of an ancient japanese continent known as move the largest of the formations resemble a massive five layered stepped pyramid.

Yet as astounding as it is, there's a debate on whether or not the formation maybe natural citing examples such as the Giant's Causeway in Ireland.

Some scientists say the formation is completely natural and not made by any ancient human being a believer or not.

This underwater relic continues to be researched in hopes of finding a definitive answer.

A number of tools and numerous engraved stones were found at the site Because of these things.

There is no doubt to me that this was made artificially.

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Number one, The city of Tony's Egypt Cleopatra the third in paris and Helen of Troy All may have seen this ancient city.

It was one that was known by two names, Heraklion in Greece and Tony's in Egypt.

These fascinating artifacts from lost Egyptian cities were discovered.

Founded somewhere between the 12th and 8th Century BC.

It was support city located near Alexandria.

Egypt described as the venice of Egypt thomas was the country's central ports for international trade.

This made it an important part of Egyptian culture at the time.

The once magnificent Egyptian cities of Tony's, Heraklion and Klopus.

Eventually the hard play foundation of the city quickly liquefied, causing everything to sink into the ocean.

But what makes this our number one is how well preserved the monuments, statues and other ruins are.

It's an instantaneous trip back to an era of pharaohs and gods once thought long lost the sea had reclaimed the cities where they lay undiscovered for over 1000 years.

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