6 Amazing Archaeological Sites That Lara Croft Hasn’t Visited (But Really Should)
Originally posted on The Archaeology of Tomb Raider . The site was archived for a while so I figured I would share it here (though it appears it may be back up and running last month, do go and have a look!). 1) Pavlopetri – The City Beneath the Waves In the original Tomb Raider Lara finds herself in the fabled lost city of Atlantis, known only through the written accounts of Plato around 360 BC, where it is said to have vanished beneath the waves some 9000 years earlier. This would make Atlantis around 11,000 years old, pushing its occupation right back to the beginning of the Holocene, or the end of the last Ice Age. In archaeological terms, this date corresponds with the early Neolithic cultures of sites such as Jericho in the Near East, or the hunter-gatherer ‘Clovis’ culture, one of the earliest groups of people to inhabitant North America. Alas, Atlantis remains a myth but until some lucky person becomes the most famous archaeologist of all time and finds the legen...