MRCP UK EXAMINATIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -TB in humans can be traced back to 9, 000 years ago in Atlit Yam, a city now under the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Israel. Archeologists found TB in the remains of a mother and child buried together.

Detailed explanation-2: -Excavations at the Submerged Neolithic site of Atlit Yam, off the Carmel Coast of Israel. Underwater archaeology in Israel began in 1960 and, already then, traces of submerged settlements were discovered. The first research took place in 1969, when the Neve-Yam site was exposed by a winter storm.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1984, marine archaeologist Ehud Galili spotted ancient remains whilst surveying the area for shipwrecks.

Detailed explanation-4: -The site was discovered in 1984 by marine archaeologist Ehud Galili, and since then underwater excavations have unearthed houses, graves and wells. At the center of the settlement seven megaliths are arranged in a stone semicircle around a freshwater spring, which may once have been the site of water rituals.

Detailed explanation-5: -The reclaimed land in the retreating shoreline was settled by Neolithic peoples from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPNB), and the later Pottery Neolithic Period, until a eustatic rise of the ocean’s sea levels submerged the ancient settlements to a depth of 8-12 metres beneath the surface.