The city of Alexandria

underwater

Matias V,Matias C , Agustina E, Juan D.Z.

 INTRODUCTION
We were interested several
in the city of constructions of
Alexandria, ancient Egypt and
because it has
is submerged
underwater.
 HISTORY

In the 12th century B.C. , although its heyday was during

the last period of the Pharaohs, when it became Egypt's
main port for international maritime traffic and tax
collection.

The Greeks knew it as Heracleion and the Egyptians as

Tonis. It was an ancient city located near the present-day
city of Alexandria whose ruins lie 30 meters underwater.
The ruins were located by the French archaeologist Franck Goddio in
2000, who attributed the sinking to the liquefaction of the silt on which
the city was built, produced in turn by intense tremors that led to the
ground not being able to support the enormous weight of its sumptuous
temples and buildings.

In fact, the palaces and places of worship founded by Goddio and his team
in the dark, polluted waters of Abukir Bay was the largest ever builted in
Egypt.
 Discoveries
Under the waters of the Mediterranean, the cities of
Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus lie at the mouth of the Nile.
Thonis-Heracleion took its name from the Greek hero Heracles
and was one of the most important commercial centers of
Egypt. Canopus was noted as a place of worship of the
Egyptian gods.

The objects found under the sea reveal stories about the politics
and culture of these civilizations, and allow us to learned more
about their gods and kings. In the image, a diver shows a
marble statue of the god Osiris founded in Canopus. It dates
from the 1st and 2nd centuries.
This colossal statue of a pharaoh also appeared under
the sea. During the last 20 years, a team of marine
archaeologists, led by Franck Goddio, explored the
submerged lands off the Mediterranean coast of
Abukir Bay, which lies between the famous ports of
Alexandria and Rosetta.