For more than half a century, academics wondered if the German town of Rungholt was a https://www.paramuspost.com/search.php?query=%27mythical%27&type=all&mode=search&results=25">'mythical' but fictional settlement . 

Now, researchers have shown that the https://www.rt.com/search?q=medieval%20trading">medieval trading port really did exist, by locating the remains of its main church under the North Sea. 

The experts used magnetic techniques to find the 130-foot under mudflats at North Frisia, the historic region off 's north coast near the border with Denmark. 

The astonishing discovery comes more than 660 years after the https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=town%20sank">town sank in 1362, hit by a storm that the town's man-made defences failed to keep at bay. 

As Christian legend goes, the town was sent the destructive weather by God as a punishment for the sins of its inhabitants, thousands of whom died. 

The discovery was announced by experts at Kiel University,  https://priority-stom.com/planet88-14/">penipu Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, the Center for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology, and the State https://www.reddit.com/r/howto/search?q=Archaeology%20Department">Archaeology Department Schleswig-Holstein in Germany.