Ancient Walled City Unearthed Off Georgia Coast Revealed at LostWorlds.org

Atlanta, GA, February 09, 2012 --(PR.com)-- A new web exhibit at LostWorlds.org, an online interactive museum of the American Indian, reveals an ancient walled city unearthed by archaeologists off the Georgia coast which predates the construction of Egypt’s pyramids. Known as the Sapelo Shell Ring Complex, this ancient city was constructed around 2300 B.C. and featured three neighborhoods each surrounded by circular walls twenty feet in height constructed from tons of seashells. Some of the earliest pottery in North America was also found buried in the remains of this lost city.

The site is quite an enigma because at the time of its construction the Native Americans living in the area were simple hunters and gatherers who had yet to invent agriculture. Many scholars believe agriculture is a prerequisite for civilization. Did these simple tribal people somehow make the leap from hunting-and-gathering to civilization in a single bound producing not only a walled city but also the new technology of pottery without the benefit of agriculture? Or did an already civilized people arrive on the coast of Georgia from elsewhere and, if so, where did they come from and why?

LostWorlds.org has created a new web exhibit devoted to this lost city on Sapelo Island. The exhibit includes streaming video documentaries featuring interviews with the archaeologist who excavated the site, 3-D computer reconstructions of the site, extensive image galleries showing what life was like at the site, and an in-depth article discussing the various theories relating to the origins of the site.

The exhibit can be viewed at: http://lostworlds.org/sapelo_shell_rings/

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