https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVMGwPDP-Yk Prelude for solo piano written by the French composer Claude Debussy, published in 1910. To quote wikipedia: "This piece is based on an ancient Breton myth in which a cathedral, submerged underwater off the coast of the...
Stained glass window from 1917 representing "Saint Guénolé, abbé de Landévennec, sauvant le roi Gradlon lors de la submersion de la ville d'Ys" in the Church of Saint-Germain in Kerlaz. Information about the legend of the sunken kingdom Ys and it's assumed...
A bretonic folksong about the sinking of the City Ys on the Atlantic Coast of Brittany. Original LyricsFrench Translation
The sea, which had been beating against the shores, suddenly broke the boundary that was imposed on it by nature. The sea rushed into the city. It coursed through the streets of the beautiful city. The sea covered up everything in the city. I saw the beautiful...
Launched in 2005, the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the stories and digital record of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and the University of...
Photography by Cynthia Scott of the X-code left by rescue searchers as they systematically covered the city of New Orleans after Hurrica Katrina. Online Exhibition and detailed info:https://southernspaces.org/2010/katrina-5-x-code-exhibition/ Thanks to Craig Colton...
Ein einziger Schrei - die Stadt ist versunken,Und Hunderttausende sind ertrunken.Wo gestern noch Lärm und lustiger Tisch,Schwamm andern Tags der stumme Fisch.Heut bin ich über Rungholt gefahren,Die Stadt ging unter vor sechshundert Jahren.Trutz, Blanke Hans? (Excerpt)...
Apparently an anglo-american invention, this story about the boy who rescues a Dutch city by sticking his finger in a hole in the dyke, has been republished in various versions since the mid 1800s . This is the earliest published version of the story and it starts...
A map I made of locations of sunken cities or cities that are currently threatened by rising sea levels or land subsidence. Click on image to follow link to google maps.
Last image from Gustave Doré's Book "London - A Pilgrimage" (1872). Detailed Information. France; 19. Century; Christian; Illustration; City: London
