https://www.ntnews.com.au/technology/science/scientists-discover-lost-ancient-colony-off-australias-coast/news-story/52bf061ee7b635a02ba51437a56be6d5Forget about the Lost City of Atlantis.
Scientists have stumbled upon a massive forgotten colony off the coast of Australia that could have once home to hundreds of thousands of people.
Various artefacts and signs of human life were discovered on the northwest shelf of Sahul, located off the coast of the northern region of Kimberley, on a landmass that connects to New Guinea, according to a study in Quaternary Science Reviews.
The drowned piece of land was likely a thriving ecosystem during the Late Pleistocene period, which dates back as far as 2.5 million years.
The now-submerged landmass was nearly 647,000 square kilometres — more than 1.6 times the size of the United Kingdom.
