I read about that all the time, the city of Uruk, where the Anunaki were, that's where the old technology is.
Supposedly they made us out of a mixture of the local species with their own DNA. Witch is why our chromosomes have two that are kind of "spliced" together (I don't know too much about DNA, but I've read in numerous places about what I just said). That's also where they would travel to their planet through what seems to be a "stargate" according to the ancient Sumerian writings. A "serpent rope" or a "doorway to heaven" Most people disregard this because of the movie and tv show, but they got the idea from all this ancient Sumerian history that I read all the time. So that argument doesn't work.
The only reason no one thinks this is real history is because their writings are extremely obvious evidence of aliens making us what we are today. So they just say "It was their myths". When it is very clearly fact. If you do enough research and have an open mind you will find it's hard not to see the truth behind their writings. I also agree one of the main reasons for being in Iraq where they are is to look for the city of Uruk and find the technology that's been unused for thousands of years.

If aliens had the ability to traverse vast, vast regions of space and live to explore what they came across, then they'd show themselves in far more obvious ways. With all that technology what would they fear from a bunch of primitive bipeds who (back then) were yet to venture beyond their own atmosphere? I don't believe it myself, but I agree with LuckyBrandon - it's far more logical than what most religions will tell you about our existence! At least there is a little science thrown in!

On topic though, I'm glad to see so many people actively concerned about the states of some of these types of ruins. Although it will be great to have it completely mapped and recorded, I still wonder if one day we'll be able to figure out how to keep the ruins themselves intact. But shouldn't they have the area around it sealed off from the public?

I wouldn't think they'd be scared. If anything I think they would have just said "screw these people".
I bet if all kinds of aliens knew about us they would probably not get involved. I wouldn't.
If you were an alien looking through "New
civilizations to potentially get involved with" magazine, and flipped to the earth page, you would most likely think "lets give them a few hundred more years".
Sorry for not actually discussing this article. Haha. It's easy to get carried away when it comes to aliens and all that jazz.
Everything I was saying before to me seems just as possible as any other theory, and I like it more, so what the hell.

The important news is that the period is poorly understood because of extensive looting, and this town is almost like a bronze-age Pompeji. The settlement goes back to the time of "the house of tiles" at Lerna, at the earliest bronze age. The Mycaenean and Minoan civilizations did not evolve from a vacuum, there was a rich cultural tradition going back thousands of years before the palaces were built.

I don't get how could they allow British scientist to examine the findings after all the damage they did in Malta.

Anyway, I'm also eager to see what they'll find. As for
Sumer-guys, we have read the same stuff, but there are much more curious parts of our past in other locations-India, Malta, Trakia, Japan. There is so much we don't know, I wouldn't be so convinced it all came from Sumer. There probably were more than one centres of ancient civilisation (maybe human, maybe not).

Why did this city site "sink" into the sea?
We know that sea levels did not rise significantly in the Mediterranean Sea during the last 5000 years. So presumably it was a calamitous geological shift in the bed rock of the town probably due to seismic activity. It is unlikely that the town would have been built in a sub-sea level valley that later flooded. The Greeks were very knowledgeable about water levels.

"ruins date from at least 2800 BC" which mean they may be older as well. In any case, the Balkans are an earthquaking zone, so, it may have gone under the sea for many reasons.
Note-there are ruins under the Black Sea too.

The last major glacial period ended about 10,000 years ago, So I imagine the sea levels were rising even before that.