Archaeological 'treasures,' including Greek ceramics and 2,400-year-old wicker baskets filled with fruit, have been discovered at the site of the ancient sunken city of Thonis-Heracleion, off Egypt's coast
Archaeological"treasures," including Greek ceramics and 2,400-year-old wicker baskets filled with fruit, have been discovered at the site of the ancient sunken city of Thonis-Heracleion, off Egypt's coast.
Along the north-east entrance canal of the submerged city the team found the remains of a large tumulus -- a Greek funerary area. It was"covered with sumptuous funerary offerings" dating back to the beginning of the fourth century BCE, IEASM said.and eight meters wide, and"looks like a kind of island surrounded by channels," IEASM added.
"They have lain untouched underwater 2,400 years, maybe because they were once placed within an underground room or were buried soon after being offered," IEASM said. However, researchers said that several earthquakes followed by tidal waves led to a 110-square-kilometer portion of the Nile delta collapsing under the sea, taking with it the cities of Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus. IEASM"rediscovered" Thonis-Heracleion in 2000 and Canopus in 1999.
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