Major BBC documentary on ancient underwater city

PA 358/10 The excavation of an ancient underwater city — dating back to 3500 BC — is to be the subject of a major new BBC Two television documentary. This ground breaking project will feature the research of underwater archaeologist Dr Jon Henderson from The University of Nottingham. The programme will use state-of-the-art computer graphics to show what pre-historic Pavlopetri — a submerged city lying off the coast of Greece — would have looked like and how its people lived. Dr Henderson said: "This documentary will follow us every step of the way as we carry out the first ever underwater excavations at this important site. And who knows what we will find? Given the good preservation of remains underwater we could recover organic items dating from the Greek Bronze Age which would be spectacular. Lying just metres off the coast in southern Laconia, Pavlopetri was discovered 40 years ago by oceanographer Dr Nic Flemming. In 1968, equipped with just snorkels and flippers, his team carried out the very first survey of the site.