Will the legendary lost city of Atlantis become a reality?

Weather of Arabia - New footage of an ancient city in the middle of the Pacific Ocean has sparked theories that the fictional island of Atlantis may be real.

Advances in technology have helped archaeologists explore the ruined city of Nan Madol in the Pacific Ocean and its skeletal wonders. The last episode of the "What on Earth?" documentary series on the "Science Channel" revealed new aerial photos of the site, which was built on land in the middle of a lake.

It is clear that the city, which was discovered in 1928, consists of geometrically regular squares separated by water channels, and it is protected from the ocean by 12 sea walls, and the city of Nan Madol was often considered the "Venice in the Pacific."

Historians believe that the city was built in the first or second century AD, and that it was the first city in the Pacific Islands and was part of the sunken Atlantis.

And Mark McCoy, who led the research team, said that Nan Madol represents the first cities in the history of the Pacific Ocean, noting that it was the capital and seat of political power and the most important religious ritual center, and the place adopted by the former chiefs of the island to rest.

The Kingdom of Soudelor, the first organized power of Poonpei Island in the Pacific, spent several decades building the stone structures that still stand on the 92 percent of the artificial islands in the lagoon off the coast of Poonpei Island.

Nan Madol, the capital of the mysterious Soudelor people until 1628, is still considered an engineering marvel.

Nan Madol means "the spaces between" and is a reference to the tidal channels that now criss-cross the ruins. The buildings that make up Nan Madol include an estimated 750,000 tons of black rock. Scientists have found ruins of temples, homes, palaces and tombs.

The people of Soudelor had to haul 1,850 tons of stone a year to build the city, even though they have a population of just 30,000 and don't have access to pulleys and levers, according to the Smithsonian Institution.

Source: Russia Today