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[PHOTOS] Has The 2,000-Year-Old Lost City Of Rhapta Been Found?

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07-07-2016 | 01:08

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[PHOTOS] Has The 2,000-Year-Old Lost City Of Rhapta Been Found?

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While on board of a helicopter flight over the coast of Tanzania, a low tide allowed a scuba diver to see an unusually-shaped formation in the water.

After three years attempting to find the location of the ruins, the diver and his team finally succeeded.

'After several unsuccessful attempts to find the formations due to low water visibility...we managed to find them on a spring low tide,' Mr Sutton said.

'What we found was far larger than expected. A series of what appear to be wide foundations ring a large area.

'Along the entire perimeter created by these foundations, many thousands of square and oblong blocks lie to either side. Some have fallen right off the foundation and others are still leaning against it.'

A professor of archaeology later visited the site and told MailOnline he thinks it could be the lost city.

'I went there only on 20th of May,' Professor Felix Chami, archaeology professor at Dar es Salaam University, Tanzania said.

Truly the ruins seem ancient of probably Roman times.'

'It could be the metropolis of Rhapta as reported by Claudia Ptolemy of the 2nd century CE,' he said.

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