Ancient Greeks and Romans, including the famous dictator Julius Caesar, are said to have traveled to a temple in the Bay of Cádiz, Spain and prayed for strength from the god Hercules – and archaeologists believe they found ruins of the legendary shrine.

Known as the Temple of Hercules Gaditanus, it is mentioned in ancient records dating back as far as the ninth century BC and archaeologists believe a collection of submerged structures are the long-lost temple.

Researchers at Seville University in southern Spain located traces of a monumental building in the Sancti Petri channel, a coastal and intertidal area of ​​the Bay of Cádiz between Chiclana de la Frontera and San Fernando using Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR).

This technology uses a remote sensing method to examine the surface of the Earth by firing lasers at the ground and measuring time for the reflected light to return to the receiver.

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The team identified a rectangular structure 984 feet long and 492 feet wide, the same measurements of the island where the temple once stood, which contains aberrations that could be ancient ruins.

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