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Atlantropa: Crazy As It Sounds

More than 150 million people live in coastal cities around the Mediterranean Sea, and many of them are under threat from rising sea levels due to climate change. Cities are pouring billions of dollars into dams and mitigation projects to prevent flooding, but there is an idea – an old idea – that could save all of the cities at once.

But here’s why damming the Mediterranean is harder than it sounds. Joe Scott dishes out the scoop on Atlantropa and the insane plan to dam the Mediterranean.

Underground City A Marvel

Everything Inside Me (EIM) continues its quest to make you wonder about the secretive and advanced technology of the past. Front and center in today’s video is the discovery of a 1,500-year-old underground city, which is considered a marvel of architecture and engineering.

The discovery surfaced a decade ago in Nushabad, Iran, when an oblivious resident stumbled upon a tunnel while digging a sewage ditch in his home. The structure was set 10- to 60-feet deep and was comprised of three stories of tunnels, chambers, air ducts, staircases, canals and booby traps. Here’s more from EIM on the find, plus reports on the discovery of two skulls of an unknown science creature in Adygea, the elongated skulls of archaeology and the legend of Piers Gerlofs Donia, the fearless Frisian rebel leader and pirate, and more.

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