Underwater Archaeologist Franck Goddio Finds 1,600-Year-Old City that Vanished 1,200 Years Ago

Core77 ^ | June 6, 2013 | hipstomp / Rain Noe

[EveningStar]

... [Franck Goddio's] results were impressive ... But it was an expedition he undertook in 2000 that really put him on the map, so to speak: He managed to locate Thonis-Heracleion, an ancient port city (built circa 800 B.C.!) that's now completely submerged off the coast of Egypt. The hyphenated name hints at its cosmopolitan nature: The Egyptians called it Thonis, the Greeks, Heracleion after a massive temple to Heracles that once stood at the site ...

[EveningStar]

Many photos! :)

[EveningStar]

ping

[MeganC]

Cue for Algore to blame global warming.

[Irenic]

I don’t know why but the photos made me sad.

[bunkerhill7]

The Egyptian Islamists want to destroy it

but they don`t know how to swim.

[Pollster1]

Sensible ping. What could interest SunkenCiv more than the discovery of a sunken civilization?

[Vendome]

Uh Maze Een!!!

[The Sons of Liberty]

Can we re-create the events with DC and its’ residents?

[molson209]

Cue for Algore to blame global warming.

or bad location

[republicanbred]

As a scuba diver myself i cannot even IMAGINE coming upon that find. Just diving down to the Christus off of Key Largo gives me a thrill!

[OldNewYork]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting this. Let’s hope it survives modern Egypt.

[SueRae]

Incredibly beautiful finds.

[SunkenCiv]

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[mass55th]

For anyone interested, there's another website for Goddio:

Franck Goddio

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[TheOldLady]

Amazing and incredibly well-preserved artifacts abound in the pictures at the link.

You know that I’m always complaining about the lack of pictures in the archeology threads, but this article is the jackpot.

Thank you for the ping, Mr. Civilizations.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks TOL. I should check those out.

[TheOldLady]

[smiles]

[ckilmer]

800 AD also coincides with the beginning of the medieval warm.

[SunkenCiv]

Heh, here’s page two:

http://www.franckgoddio.org/projects/sunken-civilizations/introduction.html

[SunkenCiv]

I really liked that pic of the submerged stele. Spectacular preservation.