Lost Egyptian City Revealed After 1,200 Years Under Sea

Turns out this wasn’t just a legend after all. A whole City has been swallowed by the Mediterranean Sea and buried in sand and mud for more than 1,200 years, can you imagine? 

The City was rediscovered by Dr. Franck Goddio and a team from the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology (IEASM) in Aboukir, near Alexandria. The remains of the lost city were found 30 feet under the surface of the Mediterranean Sea.

Until now, they found 64 ancient shipwrecks and more than 700 anchors have been unearthed from the mud of the bay. However, they also found gold coins, weights from Athens (Now that’s weird, especially that nothing like this was ever found before at an Egyptian site) and giant tablets inscribed in ancient Greek and ancient Egypt.

The question is, why did it sink? Goddio’s team suggests that the weight of the large buildings on the region’s waterlogged clay and sand soil may have caused the city to sink in the wake of an earthquake.

Wow, that’s just crazy. It’s not everyday you find a city buried under a bunch of crap!