Heracleion Photos: Lost Egyptian City Revealed After 1,200 Years Under Sea

[hsedin33]

http://seriouslyforr...ears-under-sea/

Click the link, heres a couple pics in case you can't though.

[DeNiro]

Wow it's so well preserved. That's amazing!

It would be so exciting to start dciphering those hyroglyphics.

[MikeyBoy44]

I wish I had the balls to deep sea dive. That looks amazing.

[Buddhas Hand]

Real life Atlantis . It is amazing that civilisation travelled from east to west when you look at todays world , they were so far ahead of the west , but the west adopted the printing press and they stuck with calligraphy and the rest as they say is history

[Blackberries]

could be wrong but the female statue looks from the ptolemic dynasty.

[hsedin33]

If I was a good artist, I would totally get into stone carving. One heck of way to leave your mark.

[Tom-The-Great]

amazing find

[HTania]

They have so much amazing stuff but we......

[Tortorella's Rant]

When future civilizations dig up our remains, all they'll find is McDonalds and Starbucks. Far less fascinating.

[Warhippy]

What would this have in common with the sinking of the great Alexandria I wonder? I have swum along it outside of gates but under strict supervision, it's incredible. It is something about the water in the Mediterranean or great green that preserves it all so well. Not quite like the anoxic layer in the dead sea but still very cool and so little oxidization of ferrous metal objects

[Blackberries]

What would this have in common with the sinking of the great Alexandria I wonder? I have swum along it outside of gates but under strict supervision, it's incredible. It is something about the water in the Mediterranean or great green that preserves it all so well. Not quite like the anoxic layer in the dead sea but still very cool and so little oxidization of ferrous metal objects

[Buddhas Hand]

When future civilizations dig up our remains, all they'll find is McDonalds and Starbucks. Far less fascinating.

[Pumpkins]

thats pretty coll how well preserved it is and how come it was found sooo late?

[Gustavo Fring]

Wow thats fu*king amazing. I love how after so many years the artifacts are still well preserved

[Jai604]

Incredibly fascinating, I must say.

[silverpig]

But despite all the excitement over the excavation, one mystery about Thonis-Heracleion remains largely unsolved: Why exactly did it sink? Goddio’s team suggests the weight of large buildings on the region’s water-logged clay and sand soil may have caused the city to sink in the wake of an earthquake.

[avelanch]

so now, off to atlantis.

[aGENT]

Some cool photos/info in the link, thanks OP!

[canucks#01fan]

They found gold!

[TheRussianRocket.]

Incredibly fascinating, I must say.