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Sunken Cities
Long-lost Egyptian Artifacts
Are Coming to the U.S.
olossal, 16-foot-tall sculptures and precious artifacts re- cently excavated from ancient submerged cities will be among the underwater treasures on display as part of the
CSunken Cities: Egypt’s Lost Worlds exhibit in St. Louis,
Mo. in 2018.
The Nile delta city Thonis-Heracleion (a modern arrangement of the city’s Egyptian and Greek names) reached its pinnacle as Egypt’s main Mediterranean port from 664–332 BC, but by 800 AD, natu- ral catastrophes such as earthquake and soil liquefaction had caused
Thonis-Heracleion and nearby community Canopus to submerge into the sea.
The ruins remained undiscovered for more than 1,000 years until
French archeologist Franck Goddio, president of the European Insti- tute for Underwater Archaeology, found the long-lost underwater city more than four miles off the Egyptian coast.
The discoveries made by Goddio and his underwater excavation team at Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus are considered some the greatest