An extraordinary quest to find England’s lost medieval city may soon be coming to an end. Could its discovery help solve some of today’s biggest challenges?
IT’S NOT HARD to see the appeal of searching for a lost city. Could there be treasure? What secrets do these almost-mythical places hold? And what was life really like in these mysterious places?
Answers might soon be found in an unassuming corner of northern England, as scientists and historians believe they are getting closer to finding Yorkshire’s “lost Atlantis", the town of Ravenser Odd, swallowed up by the fierce waves of the North Sea in 1362.
Its story is unlike anything else in English history. The sunken town was once rather like a little Venice—a wealthy, outward-looking place. Built on trade on East Yorkshire land, between what is now Hull and Grimsby, historians believe it was one part of England’s key trading route at the very mouth of the Humber Estuary.
It was one of England’s
