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Posted on 05/01/2013 7:30:36 AM PDT by the scotsman
It also gives me hope that the wish I've frequently expresed for certain countries to simply sink into the ocean could actually happen!
Over the years, it fell victim to a number of natural disasters before being swallowed by the sea, probably around A.D. 700.
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Franck Goddio and divers of his team are inspecting the statue of a pharaoh. The colossal statue is of red granite and measures over 5 metres. It was found close to the big temple of sunken Heracleion.
Head of a colossal statue of red granite (5.4 m) representing the god Hapi, which decorated the temple of Heracleion. The god of the flooding of the Nile, symbol of abundance and fertility, has never before been discovered at such a large scale, which points to his importance for the Canopic region.
Franck Goddio with the intact and inscribed Heracleion stele (1.90 m). It was commissioned by Nectanebo I (378-362 BC) and is almost identical to the Naukratis Stele in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The place where it was to be situated is clearly named: Thonis-Heracleion.
Amazing stuff at this find.
Thanks Fred Nerks.
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