In 1998, after an exhaustive 6-year search of the bottom of Alexandria's East Harbour, the silt and sewage yielded up the fabled palace of Cleopatra. The royal city of the Ptolemies, thought lost after it was submerged by tidal waves and earthquakes in 335 A.D., also emerged from the deep.
A sphinx carved to the likeness of Cleopatra's father Ptolemy XII, an excellently preserved 250 kilo statue of a priest of Isis, and what may be the royal barge that Cleopatra used to seduce Mark Anthony, were among the startling finds.
Labels: History, Lost Cities
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