Soon after its discovery, these Japanese underwater ruins became the subject of speculation. Could this be the remains of the ancient civilization of Mu, or the Japanese Atlantis? Mu is a legendary Pacific civilization, supposedly destroyed thousands of years ago in an earthquake. Some researchers claim that refugees from Mu moved to other continents and created the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Mesoamerica.
The Japanese underwater ruins were first discovered in the 1980s by local divers. The area is now known as Iseki Hanto or Ruins Point and is freely accessible for tourists. But the Yonaguni waters are not only a tourist attraction. Scientists are also doing serious research on the site. Some of them dismiss the idea that the underwater formations are even man-made, saying that such forms are created naturally in stone by the flowing water. Others, like professor Masaaki Kimura, identify the ruins of a castle, a triumphal arch, temples, a stadium, a road and water channels.
It is true that the layout of the underwater structures seems to resemble that of ancient cities, for example Roman ones, and the largest under water structure looks like a pyramid. Could all this be a coincidence, are we imagining things? If this is actually an ancient city, and possibly the city of Mu, it would be a major breakthrough in the study of ancient civilizations.
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