Was This Strange Hi-Tech Metropolis Constructed 14 Millennia Ago?

Lying in the center of the Pacific Ocea, more than 1,000 km from the closest coast, the enigmatic city of Nan Madol is constructed in the middle of nowhere, earning itself the name “Venice of the Pacific.” Being awake from the 2^nd century AD, many of Nan Madol’s unique aspects appear to tell the tales from 14,000 years ago.

The mysterious island metropolis of Nan Madol

Being an independent country, Micronesia’s regions include Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosrae across the west Pacific Ocean, holding 707 islands together, 92 of which constituted the prehistoric city of Nan Madol.

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Giant basalt rock was the main component of the city that was inhabited by at least 1,000 individuals in the past. However, the city is now totally forsaken. The question remains on the reason for the foundation of this city in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, leaving scientists baffled.

Nan Madol’s mysterious origin

Nan Madol’s walls erect from the underwater with some of the blocks used was nearly 40 tons in weight. Scientists believe that building walls from undersea during the period was simply out of the question, leading to claims that Nan Madol must have been higher than sea levels at that time. However, geologists stated that the island where Nan Madol is situated never sank because of phenomena, for example, bradyseism, similar to other metropolises now below sea level such as ancient Siponto in Italy.

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Then how was Nan Madol covered with waters? Indeed, if it wasn’t because the island sank, the sea levels must have been heightened. However, Nan Madol is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, not a small sea like the Mediterranean. Raising the sea levels of the Pacific Ocean, even by a few meters, a remarkable amount of water must be provided. The question now lies in the origin of such amount.
In fact, the most recent time when the sea levels of the Pacific Ocean were raised in an exceptional way, around 100 meters was after the Last Deglaciation, almost 14 millennia ago, during the period when ice surrounding most of Earth’s surface started to melt.
The melting of such large amount of ice, nearly matching the size of modern continents, was able to give the oceans sufficient quantity of water mass they needed to rise. If Nan Madol was built before that time, it could have been simply submerged by the Ocean, meaning that it is older than 14,000 years.

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Mainstream scientists, of course, completely reject the theory, as all sources of information indicate that the city was erected in the 2^nd century AD by the Saudeleurs. Well, in fact, that’s just the date of the most ancient skeletal remnants discovered on the island, not the date of the structures.
The question even extends to how the workers succeeded in moving over 100,000 tonnes of volcanic stones ‘across the sea’ to construct the 92 or so islets where Nan Madol situates, because the city isn’t constructed on land, but in the middle of the water, like Venice.
A more mysterious feature of the prehistoric city is that the stone component of Nan Madol is ‘magnetic rock’. Should a compass being brought near the stones, it would go crazy. The question is, does the magnetism of the stones relate to the shipment methods used for Nan Madol.

The legend of the twin sorcerers

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The sizes and shapes of the 92 islands constituting Nan Madol are nearly identical. Pohnpeian myths spoke of the twin sorcerers originating from the legendary Western Katau, or Kanamwayso who established the city by beginning to worship Nahnisohn Sahpw, the goddess of agriculture, transforming the uncultivable coral island into cultivable lands.
The brothers represent the kingdom of Saudeleur, arriving in this island looking for means to expand their empire. That was the moment the city was established, or they carried this basalt rock on the back of a giant flying dragon. When Olisihpa died of old age, Olosohpa became the first Saudeleur, marrying a local woman and gave birth to 12 generations, creating 16 other Saudeleur rulers of the Dipwilap (“Great”) clan.

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The dynasty’s founders reign witnessed peace, however; their successors’ period would see gradually increasing demands on their subject, leading to the island being in the throes of the empire until 1628. Their rule was terminated with the invasion of Isokelekel who also inhabited Nan Madol, although Isokelekel’s successors had to gradually forsake the city as well because of insufficient amount of food and difficulties regarding distance traveling.
Until present day, this island city still contains traces of the Empire of S Saudeleur, including kitchens, houses encompassed by basalt rock and even monuments to the kingdom of Soudelio, discovered by archaeologists. Nevertheless, several of the mysteries remain unsolved until now.

Lost continent theories behind the city of Nan Madol

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A number of experts have believed that Nan Madol is actually the remnants of one of the “lost continents”. James Churchward once regarded Nan Madol as one of the sites constituting the forgotten continent in his 1926 book The Lost Continent of Mu, Motherland of Man. Bill S. Ballinger, in his 1978 book Lost City of Stones, claimed that the metropolis was erected by Greek sailors in 300 BC. David Hatcher Childress doubts that the city is relevant to the lost Lemuria.
Additionally, Art Bell and Whitley Strieber, in their 1999 publication The Coming Global Superstorm, speculated that global warming possibly created unexpectedly devastating climatic impacts, while also state that the building of Nan Madol required great expertise in terms of technology, considering the exacting tolerances and extremely heavy basalt ingredients. Since no such society exists in the modern record this society must have been destroyed by dramatic means.