00:00We are here on the shore of the sea.
00:29We can see the current shoreline.
00:32We can see that I am next to an antique monument made of marble,
00:36which was a marble bench,
00:38which is half destroyed by the current sea level.
00:44But there are other monuments that are totally below sea level.
00:50We can guess the two large circular foundations.
00:54The largest is about 20 meters,
00:57the second 10 meters.
01:13Between where I am and this line of ancient shorelines,
01:17there is between 30 and 40 meters,
01:20which shows us the elevation of the sea level,
01:24which can be estimated between 2.5 and 3 meters since antiquity,
01:30and which is currently increasing very rapidly.
01:38Delos is doomed to disappear in about 50 years,
01:41and so this archeological park,
01:43which brings us considerable information today,
01:46we may not see it again in a few years.
01:50These are actually two combined factors
01:53that jeopardize the archeological heritage of the island of Delos.
01:58It is a tectonic effect of the plates
02:00that causes the island to sink progressively,
02:03and to this is added the rise of the sea level,
02:06which is generated by the well-known phenomena of climate change.
02:20Transcription by ESO, translation by —
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