According to most estimates, during “the last glacial maximum,” when the sea level was much lower, the distance between Sicily/Malta of Europe and Tunisia of Africa was only about 30 miles, no doubt a focal point of oceanic trade when Atlantis in the western Mediterranean (and eastern Atlantic) flourished “to the Tyrhennian sea (Italy)” as Plato wrote, and Pelasgian Greece, Canaan (Sidonians), and Old Kingdom Egypt of the eastern Mediterranean. Submerged ruins are reported 100 feet down in the harbor of Syracuse (eastern shore of Sicily), submerged ruins too off Venice, Modragone, and Pyrgi (see Time Magazine article 1954 titled Drowned Cities by Piero Nicola Gagallo), Gebel Gol Behar submerged off Sliema, Malta, and a huge long monolith hewn with a hole through its length submerged 130 feet down in the Sicilian strait near Pantelleria island, perhaps a lighthouse at that 30 mile wide Ice Age passage.
