November 19, 2001: Lost Underwater City near Cuba - Linda Moulton Howe
In an on-air interview, Zalitsky reveals that preliminary ROV videotape has captured inscriptions on the stones, including symbols resembling a Central American cross found in underwater caves throughout Cuba. The lettering appears Greek-like but is not Greek, with possible connections to the mysterious Etruscan language. Linda traces the crossed-oval symbol to the ancient Luvian linear sea script from Minoan Crete.
Ancient American Magazine editor Frank Joseph offers a sweeping theory connecting the site to Atlantis, the Bronze Age copper trade from Michigan, and a catastrophic comet convergence around 1200 B.C. that a 1997 Cambridge symposium confirmed nearly drove humanity to extinction.
Key Moments
Megalithic stones with inscriptions, half a mile down off Cuba: Linda Moulton Howe reports that Paulina Zalitsky's deep-ocean team has located a plateau 2,200 feet below the western tip of Cuba with sonar and ROV video showing pyramidal structures and megalithic stones - roughly two by five meters - bearing carved inscriptions, now being analyzed by the Cuban Academy of Sciences.
Zalitsky takes the phone: 'It's not Greek': Paulina Zalitsky cuts in mid-interview to correct the record - the inscriptions resemble Greek letters but are not Greek, and the symbology and pyramid layout look Mesoamerican. She describes finding an 'American cross' of two crossing ovals and notes Cuba has submerged three times.
The Luvian crossed-oval symbol matches Cuba: Howe describes searching the University of Pennsylvania's rare-book collection and finding the Cuban crossed-oval symbol in a book on the Sea Peoples - specifically in the linear-sea language of the Luvian, an ancient Bronze Age maritime culture allied with Troy.
Frank Joseph: 1200 BC global cometary catastrophe: Researcher Frank Joseph cites a 1997 Cambridge symposium on Bronze Age catastrophes, arguing that converging comets - including Halley - showered Earth with asteroids and meteors around 1200 BC, sinking Atlantis along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and incinerating the Black Forest. Britain and Germany lost nine-tenths of their populations.
Navy chases off Azores expedition; jamming alleged: Howe reads from a report sent to Ancient American magazine: a Spanish-American oil team filming a nine-column underwater 'temple' 250 miles southwest of the Azores at 2,800 feet was chased off by Navy ships and claims their image transmissions were jammed. Art and Linda discuss why such a discovery would be suppressed.