Somewhere beneath six meters of Mediterranean seawater, in the murky shallows of Abu Qir Bay, the columns of an Egyptian ...

Divers have discovered a rare military vessel amid the sunken ruins of the ancient Egyptian city of Thônis-Heracleion. Measuring over 80 feet long, the flat-bottomed ship had both oars and a large ...

When the demigod Hercules first arrived in north Africa, a colossal temple was erected in commemoration of his footfall at the ancient Egyptian port city of Thonis-Heracleion. The metropolis was also ...

Thonis-Heracleion once thrived at the mouth of the Nile, a vibrant city pulsing with trade and ceremony long before Alexandria rose to power in 331 BCE. It stood as Egypt’s main gateway to the ...

In Plato’s Critias the fictional city of Atlantis—a rival to ancient Athens—was cursed by the gods, besieged by earthquakes and floods, and disappeared into the ocean. For centuries, people wrote ...

While Heracleion was once a busy metropolis, the ancient city has been submerged underwater since it flooded 1,500 years ago. Now, divers have swum through the ancient Egyptian city, uncovering a ...

New Delhi: You must have heard about the Lost city of Atlantis which got submerged into the sea mysteriously and discovered by the archeologists in the recent past. But there is another interesting ...

For centuries it was thought to be a legend, a city of extraordinary wealth mentioned by Herodotus, visited by Helen of Troy and Paris, her lover, but apparently buried under the sea. In fact, ...

Ancient Egypt’s gateway to the Mediterranean – submerged and buried under layers of sand – is an eerie reminder of how vulnerable cities are to nature’s forces He stood for centuries at the very edge ...