Discovery of Yarmutra, a sunken ancient city off coast of south Lebanon

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1- Wide of Sidon city port 2- Mohamad Sarji, president of the syndicate of Lebanese divers, inside a fishing boat 3- Various of Sidon city seen from sea 4- Wide of Sidon fortress 5- Various of Sarji touring the sea to locate the site 6- Set up shot for researcher in the history of civilizations Yussef Hurani 7- SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Yussef Hurani, researcher in the history of civilizations "After discovering the sunken city of Sidon, we got a proof of the sinkage of all the Lebanese shore in the sea according to notes made by either keen old people or from my own researches or from notes written by some scientists." 8- Mohamad Sarji preparing himself to dive 9- Various of Sarji diving UNDERWATER SHOTS 10- Remains of harbors 11- Remains of walls 12- Remains of paved streets 13- Remains of houses 14- Set up shot for Mohamad Sarji, president of the syndicate of Lebanese divers 15- Cutaway of fishermen 16. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mohamad Sarji, president of the syndicate of Lebanese divers We found harbors at a deep of 17 m, two seaports each one about 100 m but divided due to geological motion in the earth, however, from what remains of it we can see that it was very beautifully paved which proves the existance of a city that used to depend on the commerce and the sea ect.... 17- Various pictures of the Egyptian statues found in the site 18- SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Researcher Yussef Hurani We found paved streets with a wide square containing some statues of wich we recognized two that date back to the Pharaonic Egyptian culture. 19- Cutaway books 20- SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Researcher Yussef Hurani Strabo induced us to look for this ancient lost city when he mentioned it under the name " Ornitho so we designated the site only since as a scientist I can't assume a thing before finding absolute evidences, nevertheless, I am likely to believe that this is Yarmuta." 21-Wide of the sea STORYLINE: After the discovery of the sunken city of " Sidon " couple of years ago, another ancient city has been found off the shores of southern Lebanon. Reasearcher in the history of civilization, Yussef Hurani and the president of the syndicate of Lebanese proffessional divers, Mohamad Sarji, announced earlier this month , that the remains of a 4000-year-old city, Yarmuta, have been found off the coast of Zahrani, north of the ancient city of Tyre. The remains of the city, stretching over an area of 4 sq km, are located between 3m and 17m deep some 60m to 800m off the coast. Among the remains was a 30m-long wall with a width of 70 centimetres found 60 metres off the coast. They also found paved roads, covered with algae, some of which were 60 metres long at a depth of five metres some 250m off the coast. A pile of stones that had apparently been used for the construction of houses was also discovered on the site, as well as remains of a stairway, squares and dikes at a depth of some 17m. Hurani who has been gathering and studying documents about undersea cities off the Lebanese coasts for 40 years said that writings dating back to 1934 by French archaeologist Poidebard, who had carried out studies about the remains of the city of Tyre, gathered testimony from old fishermen, who had all clearly recalled having seen visible remains under the water, off the coast of Tyre, that had later disappeared. The name of Yarmuta last appeared in the Letters of Tell Amara, written in 1370 BC by the governor of the ancient port city of Byblos, north of Beirut. In the document, Yarmuta was described as an important centre of supplies, particularly in wood, for the Pharaohs. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/bc64c91c583572b490a75e0faa569744 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork