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CIUDAD EGIPCIA TRAGADA POR EL MAR DESCUBIERTA DESPUS DE 1200

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The archeologists have gone back to discover an Egyptian city wrapped
up in myths, swallowed by The Mediterranean sea and buried in sand
and the clay during over 1.200 years.
Acquaintance like Heraclion for the ancient Greek and Thonis for the
ancient Egyptian, the city was found in the year 2000 for the submarine
French archeologist Franck Goddio. The ruins of the lost city found 9,4
meters underneath the surface of the sea Mediterranean, at Abukir's
bay, close to Alexandria. .
During Thonis Heracleion's excavation of 13 years, moving archeological
discoveries helped to describe an ancient city that an international
important shopping center was not only, but also, important religious
center. The investigation suggests that the people that were living in
Thonis Heraclion majored in the commerce between the Mediterranean
and the Nile..
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Another findings include gold coins, weights of Athens.

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One of the more important discoveries of the zone of the temple is this
monolithic chapel, since you suit someone's purposes like a key to
identify the rest of the city.
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The investigators found a statues
The experts marveled at for diversity found objects and it although they
have kept in good condition like these. ( READING PPT 7 )
but a mystery about Thonis Heraclion stays in great unsolvable part:
Why exactly did the city sink?

Goddio's team suggests that the weight of the big buildings in a surface
of ground of clay and sand may have done that the city sink after an

earthquake. According to Goddio, you can take over 200 years before
scientists discover all of the secrets of the lost city.

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