BlueGin
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Love the pictures at the link...Especially the second one. Very cool.
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Until a decade ago, no one knew if Heracleion, believed to be an ancient harbor city, was fiction or real. Now, reports the Telegraph, the researchers who found it150 feet beneath the surface of Egypt's Bay of Aboukirare sharing some of the amazing historical artifacts preserved there.
The finds include 64 ships, 16-foot-tall statues, 700 anchors and countless gold coins and smaller artifacts.
According to underwater archeologist Franck Goddio, credited with having discovered the site, the city was probably built sometime around the 8th century B.C., which makes it older than the famed city of Alexandria. Over the years, it fell victim to a number of natural disasters before being swallowed by the sea, probably around A.D. 700.
We are just at the beginning of our research, said Goddio. We will probably have to continue working for the next 200 years for [it] to be fully revealed and understood.
Sunken Egyptian city reveals 1,200-year-old secrets
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Until a decade ago, no one knew if Heracleion, believed to be an ancient harbor city, was fiction or real. Now, reports the Telegraph, the researchers who found it150 feet beneath the surface of Egypt's Bay of Aboukirare sharing some of the amazing historical artifacts preserved there.
The finds include 64 ships, 16-foot-tall statues, 700 anchors and countless gold coins and smaller artifacts.
According to underwater archeologist Franck Goddio, credited with having discovered the site, the city was probably built sometime around the 8th century B.C., which makes it older than the famed city of Alexandria. Over the years, it fell victim to a number of natural disasters before being swallowed by the sea, probably around A.D. 700.
We are just at the beginning of our research, said Goddio. We will probably have to continue working for the next 200 years for [it] to be fully revealed and understood.
Sunken Egyptian city reveals 1,200-year-old secrets
