1,200-year-old Secrets of Sunken Egyptian City

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Sunken Egyptian city reveals 1,200-year-old secrets

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A giant statue recovered from the ancient city Heracleion. (Reuters)


Until a decade ago, no one knew if Heracleion, believed to be an ancient harbor city (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/archaeology/10022628/Lost-city-of-Heracleion-gives-up-its-secrets.html#mm_hash), was fiction or real. Now, reports the Telegraph, the researchers who found it—150 feet beneath the surface of Egypt's Bay of Aboukir—are 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 (http://www.franckgoddio.org/projects/sunken-civilizations/heracleion.html), 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.”

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Heracleion Photos: Lost Egyptian City Revealed After 1,200 Years Under Sea Posted by on June 4, 2013 (http://seriouslyforreal.com/seriously-for-real/heracleion-photos-lost-egyptian-city-revealed-after-1200-years-under-sea/)
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It is a city shrouded in myth, swallowed by the Mediterranean Sea and buried in sand and mud for more than 1,200 years. But now archeologists are unearthing the mysteries of Heracleion, uncovering amazingly well-preserved artifacts that tell the story of a vibrant classical-era port.
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Known as Heracleion to the ancient Greeks and Thonis to the ancient Eygptians, the city was rediscovered in 2000 by French underwater archaeologist Dr. Franck Goddio and a team from the European Institute for Underwater Acheology (IEASM) after a four-year geophysical survey. The ruins of the lost city were found 30 feet under the surface of the Mediterranean Sea in Aboukir Bay, near Alexandria.
A new documentary highlights the major discoveries that have been unearthed at Thonis-Heracleion during a 13-year excavation. Exciting archeological finds help describe an ancient city that was not only a vital international trade hub but possibly an important religious center. The television crew used archeological survey data to construct a computer model of the city .
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[atmjjc]

What an incredible find.

It’s somewhat mind boggling as how we look at histories past and stumble into things that were once a vibrant city harbor with the interaction of so many humans and how we forget the vast treasures of knowledge of the ancients.

The real mystery in my mind is how it had stayed hidden for so long.

[CasperParks]

What an incredible find.

It’s somewhat mind boggling as how we look at histories past and stumble into things that were once a vibrant city harbor with the interaction of so many humans and how we forget the vast treasures of knowledge of the ancients.

The real mystery in my mind is how it had stayed hidden for so long.

When reading the news story, I was wondering the same thing. Why wasn't it found earlier?

[whoknows]

What an incredible find.

It’s somewhat mind boggling as how we look at histories past and stumble into things that were once a vibrant city harbor with the interaction of so many humans and how we forget the vast treasures of knowledge of the ancients.

The real mystery in my mind is how it had stayed hidden for so long.

Pretty sure it's because HI Tech sonar, "side scan" has only been around for about two and a half decades and a lot of that time it was not public use tech. The first time I was involved with it was in the early nineties and that was a prototype out of University of Hawaii, it could image 5K on a side depending on the depth.

Actually it was available to the Navy in the early 70's, make that late 60's, and deployed on DE,s in carrier groups to screen for subs. Basically the tow vehicle was about the size of a VW beetle dropped out of the stern and the receiver was a disc shaped structure on the bow of the vessel.

LOL I'm sure I was not the first to suggest it's use for archeological coastal searches, but it hadn't been use for that purpose at that point. So who knows hehe.

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Sorry, was in a hurry. The Navy DE's had the sender on the bow and the receiver towed by cable from the stern, and that was on a Knox Class DE, not sure beyond that. That was my sources connection, and from what he says was classified stuff back in the 60's and 70'.

I'm sure there is a lot more that I haven't a clue about!;)

[Doc]

What an incredible find.

It’s somewhat mind boggling as how we look at histories past and stumble into things that were once a vibrant city harbor with the interaction of so many humans and how we forget the vast treasures of knowledge of the ancients.

The real mystery in my mind is how it had stayed hidden for so long.

I always wonder what the people who lived in these places did all day. What did they talk about at work? What did they think about as they walked home?