Ancient Civilizations: Season 5, Episode 6

5 - 6: Sunken City of the Caribbean

The battle for rewriting the historical record and accepted timeline of our species and planet offers new revelations of an Atlantean outpost driven underground by the cataclysmic events of the Younger Dryas.

Images from a 1970's side scan sonar detected step-like features similar to Mayan and Aztec pyramids submerged 2,000 feet on the ocean floor off the coast of Cuba. Kept quiet by academics and abandoned by commercial explorers, these ruins challenge the standard model accepted by modern archaeology. When deep sea relics in the Caribbean are examined alongside theories of an Atlantean empire of islands proposed by Plato and Edgar Cayce, the possibility of an ancient Mesoamerican civilization emerges.