Archaeologists have mapped out a legendary lost city – which supposedly sank beneath the North Sea due to the sins of its inhabitants.

The lost city of Rungholt disappeared beneath the waves in a storm tide and legend says its bells can still be heard there.

One local legend suggests that a priest asked by drunken local young men to give the last rites to a pig prayed for God to punish Rungholt, shortly before the storm tide arrived.

But the city – sometimes described as another ‘Atlantis’ – is very real and located beneath Germany’s Wadden Sea.

The medieval trading center of Rungholt, drowned in a storm surge in 1362 and researchers recently found several miles of mounds and a large church at a location beneath the North Sea.

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