Has the 2,000-year-old lost city of Rhapta been found ? Old vestiges off the shore of Tanzania could be the Roman market town

While on a helicopter flight off the shoreline of Tanzania, a low tide permitted a scuba jumper to detect a bizarrely molded development in the water.

Prehistorian accept what they found was an old indented city, known as Rhapta which flourished 2,000 years prior.

Rhapta is accepted to be Africa's first city and an exchanging center for tortoiseshell and metal weapons.

In any case, little is thought about Rhapta's story since its vanishing over 1,600 years back. .

A progression of what give off an impression of being wide establishments ring an expansive range. Along the whole edge made by these establishments, numerous a huge number of square and oval pieces lie to either side. Some have fallen right off the establishment and others are as yet inclining toward it

THE LOST METROPOLIS OF RHAPTA

For quite a long time, the 'lost city' of Rhapta haa perplexed researchers, jumpers, and archeologists.

A professor of archaeology later visited the site and told MailOnline he thinks it could be the lost city.
'I went there only on 20th of May,' Professor Felix Chami, archaeology professor at Dar es Salaam University, Tanzania, told MailOnline.
'Truly the ruins seem ancient of probably Roman times.'
'It could be the metropolis of Rhapta as reported by Claudia Ptolemy of the 2nd century CE,' he said.
'We are looking for artefacts of he period probably now underwater to confirm that it is Rhapta.'

The city of Rhapta is specified by Claudius Ptolemy the Greco-Egyptian essayist, in his work 'Topography', going back to 50 AD.

It was depicted as Africa's first city and an exchanging center point for tortoiseshell and metal weapons.

It was one of the wealthiest urban communities of now is the ideal time.

In any case, little has been added to Rhapta's story since its vanishing over 1,600 years back.

Its area has not yet been solidly distinguished, despite the fact that there are various hopeful locales.

Its area has not yet been immovably distinguished, in spite of the fact that there are various conceivable hopeful locales off the bank of Tanzania.

Presently Alan Sutton, a scuba-jumper, may have run over the old city amid a progression of plunges.

'The development was entirely far out yonder and I took a photo and afterward exploded it,' Mr Sutton wrote in a blog entry about the disclosure.

'After a few unsuccessful endeavors to discover the developments because of low water visibility...we figured out how to discover them on a spring low tide,' Mr Sutton said.

'What we found was far bigger than anticipated. A progression of what seem, by all accounts, to be wide establishments ring an extensive territory.