Heracleion
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 10:27 am
Old news. It was discovered in 2000.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1375708.stm
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Re: Heracleion
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 10:37 am
Re: Heracleion
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Re: Thonis-Heracleion
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2023 5:56 pm
The ongoing undersea excavation, of "an area the size of Paris":
https://www.businessinsider.com/silver- ... ple-2023-9
https://www.unilad.com/news/world-news/ ... 1-20230926
A Temple to Aphrodite Ourania is what's in the news, now?
https://www.businessinsider.com/silver- ... ple-2023-9
At the site, the archaeologists discovered artifacts from the {Amun} temple's treasury, including gold jewelry and a 'Djed pillar,' a symbol of stability, made of a blue semi-precious stone named lapis lazuli.
https://www.unilad.com/news/world-news/ ... 1-20230926
Goddio also found ‘imported bronze and ceramic objects’, which he says shows that ‘Greeks' who were allowed to trade and settle in the city during the time of the Pharaohs of the Saïte dynasty (664 - 525 BC) had their sanctuaries to their own gods’.
A Temple to Aphrodite Ourania is what's in the news, now?
Re: Heracleion, Sunken City
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2023 6:26 pm
I'm growing curious about Sunken Cities -- with climate change, my own city is threatened -- and I've always been fascinated by Venice. It seems Heracleion was that: a 'Venice' of its day. Now it's 19ft (5.8 metres) underwater and another 10ft (3m) of silt, if I'm understanding Goddio correctly. Heracleion's foundation level has sunk ~35 feet in 2,300 years?
