Posted on 09/21/2023 10:17:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A team of underwater archaeologists has made new discoveries at a sunken temple in the ancient port city Thonis-Heracleion, which is now located off Egypt's coast, the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology (IEASM) announced on Tuesday.
The city, which was initially found underwater by the IEASM in 2000, was once Egypt's largest port along the Mediterranean Sea. That port was active for centuries before the founding of Alexandria in 331 BCE. Its remains are now under the ocean roughly 4.3 miles from the current coastline.
Led by French marine archaeologist Franck Goddio, the team found huge blocks of stone from a collapsed ancient temple dedicated to the god Amun. Pharaohs went to the temple to be bestowed with their power as king.
Additionally, the team found precious objects, among them silver ritual instruments, gold jewelry, and alabaster containers for perfumes and ointments. These objects are thought to have once belonged to the temple treasury.
Excavations conducted by Goddio's team and the underwater archaeology department of Egypt's ministry and tourism department yielded underground structures supported dating back to the 5th century BCE. Before these structures sunk, they were supported using wooden posts and beams. The use of new geophysical prospecting technologies, which make it possible to detect buried chambers and objects, aided in the find.
A Greek sanctuary to Aphrodite containing bronze and ceramic objects was unearthed east of the Amun temple. Archaeologists believe that the discovery of Greek weapons in the area indicated the presence of mercenaries who would have been defending access to the Kingdom. It also demonstrates that Greeks were allowed to trade and settle in the city during the Saïte dynasty (664–525 BCE).
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If those underwater cities had expensive objects still in the ruins, wouldn’t it mean that the inundation by water was fast. Otherwise the people would have taken the stuff away before the complete flooding.
So they had rapid climate change, I guess. Even in those times..
RE: So they had rapid climate change, I guess. Even in those times..
Yes, the SUV tire tracks and the plastic straws and fast food drink lids show they were on a downward earth stewardship trend at the end.
This port flourished at the mouth of the Nile in the seventh century BC. The port city was also known as Thonis to the Egyptians and Heracleion to the Greeks. It flourished as a vital center for trade and culture, and then disappeared when it was suddenly flooded.
At the end of the second century BC and possibly after a severe flood, the land on which the central island of Heracleion was built underwent soil liquefaction, solid clay quickly turned into liquid and buildings collapsed in the water. A small number of residents remained in the Roman era and the beginning of the Arab conquest, but by the end of the eighth century AD, what remained of Thonis sank under water.
Someone should rub that lamp and see what happens
And cow farts. Don’t forget the cow farts.
Yep, all that arctic ice melting due to industrial glass furnaces and human commerce.
Thanks m. Also there are probably a bunch of documentaries — some by vloggers, but also avast-ye-swabs “borrowed” stuff from pros — on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrpkwLSzxZ_gTJLj7nKfVhQ
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Franck+Goddio
RE:And cow farts. Don’t forget the cow farts.
I won’t.
Much as I try to.🐄🐄
Yep...thanks SunkenCiv.
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