Located 400 meters off the coast of Atlit near Haifa, Israel, submerged under 8 to 12 meters of Mediterranean water, sits Atlit Yam . Dating to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period ( c. 7000–6300 BCE ), this 9,000-year-old settlement provides the most complete and pristine map of an early human maritime-agricultural community ever discovered. The site was preserved when a massive, catastrophic tsunami—likely triggered by the structural collapse of the eastern flank of Mount Etna volcano thousands