For the last 800 years tales have been told of the legend of the Welsh Atlantis, Cantre’r Gwaelod - a land lost below the water at Cardigan Bay. However evidence that it really existed has been scant and the story has remained no more than folklore for centuries.
But new evidence has suggested that it may really have existed after all. A medieval map depicting two islands off the Ceredigion coast provides some proof that the legend may be rooted in historical fact, the BBC reports.
The discovery has been made by Simon Haslett, honorary professor of physical geography at Swansea University, and David Willis, Jesus College professor of Celtic at the University of Oxford.
