The Lost Egyptian City

Heracleion Egyptian city is disappearing from the world map approximately 1200 years ago. Archaeologists suspect that the city was destroyed and ended up at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, an earthquake strike Aboukir Bay, near Alexandria.

Unfortunately, some important evidence still unaccounted for and support this allegation. First discovered in 2000 by archaeologist Dr. Franck Goddio and a team of scientists working with the European Institute for underwater archeology, the remains of the city Heracleion is only 9.14 m below the surface of the Mediterranean sea.

So far, the scientists assume Heracleion city center is a very important international trade. Scientists assumption is also strengthened by the discovery of 64 ancient shipwrecks, as well as more than 700 pieces of the ship under the sea anchor.

Even the researchers also found a lot of gold coins, and stone carvings that have writing in Greek and Egyptian buried in the sand. Thus quoted from Softpedia, Monday (06/10/2013).

Based on information from various sources, people who live in those cities Heracleion also considered as an important religious center. This theory is also strengthened by the researchers extracting stone sculpture measuring approximately 4.87 meters, which is thought to belong to the main temple of the city.