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Heracleion (Ancient Greek: Ἡράκλειον Hērákleion), also known as Thonis (Ancient Greek: Θῶνις Thônis; from the Ancient Egyptian: Tȝ-ḥn.t; Coptic: Ⲧϩⲱⲛⲓ Thōni, Coptic pronunciation: [dəˈhoːni]) [1] and sometimes called Thonis-Heracleion, was an ancient Egyptian port city located near the Canopic Mouth of the Nile, about 32 km (20 mi) northeast of Alexandria on ...
The latter was recently rediscovered underwater. Alexandria was founded by Alexander the ... Alexandria: City of ... A Travel Guide to Ancient Alexandria, Lucent ...
Antirhodos (sometimes Antirrhodos or Anti Rhodes) was an island in the eastern harbor of Alexandria, Egypt, on which a Ptolemaic Egyptian palace was sited. The island was occupied until the reigns of Septimius Severus and Caracalla [1] and it probably sank in the 4th century, when it succumbed to earthquakes and a tsunami following an earthquake in the eastern Mediterranean near Crete in the ...
Ancient Alexandria Between Egypt and Greece. Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, Vol. XXVI. Leiden & Boston: Brill. ISBN 90 04 14105 7. Jacob, Christian, & François de Polignac, eds. (1992/2000). Alexandria, third century BC: The knowledge of the world in a single city. Translated by Colin Clement. Alexandria: Harpocrates Publishing ...
Alexandria: Rhacotis, Rakotə, Eskendereyyah: Alexandria was the intellectual and cultural center of the ancient world for some time; capital of the Ptolemaic Kingdom: Khito 3rd Rashid: Bolbitine, Bolbitinum, Bolbitinon, Trashit, Rakhit, Rexi: Where Rosetta Stone was found: Ptkheka (Ptkheka) 4th Neith: Tanta: Capital of its nome: Zau
One of the ancient lands the project aims to explore is Doggerland, which is thought to have thrived in North Sea region some 8,200 years ago. “Twenty-thousand years ago, the global sea level ...
Crowned at just 18 years old and labeled as one of history’s most famous female rulers, Cleopatra is believed by some to lie underwater since a large portion of ancient Alexandria is now ...
Pharos was a small island located on the western edge of the Nile Delta.In 332 BC, Alexander the Great founded the city of Alexandria on an isthmus opposite Pharos. . Alexandria and Pharos were later connected by a mole [6] spanning more than 1,200 metres (0.75 miles), which was called the Heptastadion ("seven stadia"—a stadion was a Greek unit of length measuring approximate