In 2001, a group of explorers announced that it had discovered an ancient submerged city off Cuba, which would register human history. Sonar scans of the area showed large stone structures, which resembled pyramids and other buildings, over 600 meters deep (central photo), covering an area of 2 square kilometers.

The researchers then argued that the mysterious city could be over 6,000 years old, which makes it significantly older than the Egyptian pyramids and may have overturned the historical timetable of human evolution.

The images of the lost city were truly impressive but since then, no one has ever been reunited with the mysterious findings – which many said at the time was perhaps the legendary Atlantis.

Why was he abandoned by scientists

According to the Daily Mail, after the discovery of Paulina Zelitsky and Paul Weinzweig, many scientists expressed their skepticism about the submerged city, saying it would take up to 50,000 years for a city to sink so deeply.

Others – among them Cuban Geologist Manuel Iturralde -Vinent of the Cuban Museum of Natural History – have argued that the “structures” are simply natural rocky formations, arguing that an entire city would not have been so well preserved if it were sinking during a natural catastrophe.

Listening to scientists’ objections to her discovery, Paulina Zelitsky had told the BBC in 2001: “It would be completely irresponsible to say exactly what it was, before we had evidence.”

Unfortunately, no more details were gathered because the planned mission to the Cuban Guanacabibs Peninsula never took place.

In 2002, the Cuban geologist had stated that the structures were so deep that it would take much longer than 6,000 years (50,000) to sink the area due to the movement of tectonic plates.

In fact, he had said that if it were really a sunken city of 6,000 years, then “our understanding of human evolution should be fully revised”, as Homo Sapiens at that time were hunters – trophies and “there are no evidence that they were building cities”.

“It’s weird, it’s weird, we’ve never seen it before and we don’t have any explanation,” Iturralde-Vinent had said in the Washington Post.

The mystery of Cuba’s “lost city”, however, still intrigues social media users, who bring back various conversation theories about its existence, even that it may be related to the Cuban rocket crisis.

“Cultures that existed before the glacier era, perhaps many cultures that developed and collapsed … The historical knowledge lost (or concealed),” commented one user on the X platform.

“There is so much hidden story … It’s exciting. Everything that has taught us is a lie, “another said.