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Development of human society in the course of the whole history of mankind significantly depended on a lot of natural factors such as climatic conditions, soil fertility, and availability of water sources, the vegetable world and the... more
Development of human society in the course of the whole history of mankind significantly depended on a lot of natural factors such as climatic conditions, soil fertility, and availability of water sources, the vegetable world and the animal world. However perhaps only natural calamities distinguished by its unpredictability and scope exerted fatal impact on development of civilizations. There are many examples in the history of mankind that evidence destruction and dark oblivion for many centuries and sometimes millenniums of the whole civilizations as a result of natural calamities.
Investigation of shelf of Absheron peninsula using space photographs allowed scientists to find an extraordinary structure on the bottom of sea, near the eastern boundaries of Absheron peninsula i.e. Shikhov bay-bar and the shape of this structure reminded the ruins of an ancient fortress. Authors temporarily titled this structure as “Zyrinskaya fortress”. Closer viewing of the picture allows us to see clearly the perimeter and the interior design of the structure. Special filters providing for viewing of the space photograph in various spectral ranges have been used in order to improve visual capacity of the obtained picture. As you see from the space photograph the walls of the ancient structure are clearly showing up. The structure has oblong shape and stretches in the North-eastern direction. Ruins of several walls that have lateral and cross cut orientation in regard to exterior walls are clearly distinguished inside the structure. There is a semicircular structure near the southern wall, in the central part of the conditional fortress.
Meanwhile we haven’t found any notes in historical sources that would confirm availability of an ancient fortress in the detection area of underwater ruins. The next successive step of relevant investigations shall consist of archeological digs.