The Underwater Egyptian City _ Lost and Found after 2000 years

One of the greatest discoveries ever made in the 21st century, a whole Egyptian city been found underwater near Alexandria under Abu-Qir bay waters in Egypt, the “Heracleion” also called “Thonis”, has been mentioned in ancient Greek historians, that its beginnings was back in the 12th century B.C, and that it was a wealthy city and was specially flourished in the 6th to the 4th century BC as been shown by many of the city’s finds, and it was considered as Egypt’s main port.


The city sank due to great earthquakes and floods in the 6th or 7th century A.D, and been found after almost 2000 years by the French underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio, and they found plenty of ruins such as:

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