From: MICHAEL SPITZER
Subject: IUFO: OT: Ancient Cities Reported Found Under Sea Off Egypt
Date: 4 Jun 2000 01:11:31 -0400
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Ancient Cities Reported Found Under Sea Off Egypt
Updated 10:37 AM ET June 3, 2000
By Reim Bashir
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Archaeologists on Saturday
showed off relics retrieved from the nearly complete ruins of
ancient cities they said they had discovered on the seabed off
the Egyptian coast.
The joint French and Egyptian team said the cities of
Menouthif and Herakleion, submerged more than 1,000 years ago,
lay in five to 10 meters (15-30 feet) of water about six km (3.75
miles) off the Mediterranean city of Alexandria.
"We are very excited because we are used to finding the
remains of a tomb, a church or a mosque, but this time we are
finding complete cities -- cities that were heard about from the
classical writings," said Gaballah Ali Gaballah, head of Egypt's
Supreme Council of Antiquities.
"Most probably they disappeared because of seismic causes,"
said Franck Goddio, head of the Paris-based European Institute of
Marine Archaeology.
A rise in the Mediterranean sea level and sudden submersion
caused by earthquake, or climate changes, could explain the
annihilation of the cities, he said.
The cities were legendary in antiquity for their wealth and
arts as well as their many temples dedicated to the gods Serapis,
Isis and Osiris.
An intricately carved 1.5-meter (five-foot) black granite
statue of Isis was shown to the media after being raised from the
seabed.
Also discovered during two years of undersea exploration
were the head of a pharaonic statue of a sphinx, jewelry and gold
coins dating from the Byzantine and Islamic eras.
The archaeologists said the coins showed the region had not
been submerged until the eighth century, although the cities had
been founded many hundreds of years earlier.
The archaeologists said they had also identified two other
submerged cities in the same area, Canopus and Thonis, but had
not yet retrieved relics from them.
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