The Times article "Fabled lost city yields treasures from under the sea
Article in The Times on fieldwork in Thonis-Heracleion.
Article in The Times on fieldwork in Thonis-Heracleion.
"Sunken city of Heracleion yields its treasures": The secrets of an Egyptian city swallowed by sand and sea more than 1,200 years ago have begun to emerge from the Mediterranean. An international team of marine archaeologists is preparing to show some of the initial finds recovered from a well-preserved ancient port city that now lies beneath the shallow waters and mud of Aboukir Bay, about 32km northeast of Alexandria.
"New light shed on ancient Egyptian port and ship graveyard": New research illuminates Thonis-Heracleion, a sunken port-city that served as the gateway to Egypt in the first millennium BC. This obligatory port of entry, known as 'Thonis' by the Egyptians and 'Heracleion' by the Greeks, was where seagoing ships probably unloaded their cargoes to have them assessed by temple officials and taxes extracted before transferring them to Egyptian ships that went upriver.