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 |  Subject: Is This Lost City A Glimpse Into The Future?  Thu Oct 26, 2017 8:27 am | |
| Is This Lost City A Glimpse Into The Future?
October 26, 2017 by SkyWatch Editor Franck Goddio worked in finance and economics for most of his career — just a guy at a desk buried in numbers, all the while dreaming of what’s buried at sea. But in the early 1980s, Goddio decided to dedicate his life to his true passion, underwater archaeology. And after mapping huge tracts of seabed off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, he made an incredible find: Beneath the waves of Abu Qir Bay, a few miles east of Egypt’s second-largest city, Goddio’s team discovered a sunken world of temples and hieroglyphs, shipwrecks and sanctuaries. He’d found Thonis-Heracleion, the 7th century BC city named after Hercules that was a key religious center and trade hub for the ancient world. Goddio has been excavating the site since its discovery in 2000, but only a small fraction has been fully unearthed. In fact, on the morning of CNN’s visit to his floating research laboratory, his team had discovered yet another shipwreck. (READ MORE) |
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