the mysterious underwater pyramid structure at Yonaguni

[Henry]

The Morien Institute has kept a close watch on developments since 1999, and has been just as excited about the many new batches of underwater photographs that have emerged of the Yonaguni structures(yes! there is more than one), as we have been dismayed by the many citings of the structure's existence as somehow representing 'the final proof' of the existence of Atlantis and/or Lemuria.

We have consistently taken the simple view that, following the dramatic series of rises in sea-levels that marked the ending of the last Ice Age, it is inevitable that more and more evidence of ancient civilisation will be discovered on the continental shelves and shallow seas, and even further out in the oceans everywhere around the world.

Peoples in ancient times were not much different from those of today. They had a preference for building their settlements near to the sea for exactly the same reasons as we do - ports for the ships conducting foreign trade, and nearby urban developments for those involved with sea-borne trade, with fishing, as well as a simple liking for living near the seaside on coastal plains. But most of the coastal plains of the Ice age have long since been underwater, and the Morien Institute can confidently predict that the future for marine arch