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Ancient shipwreck found off Egypt
ARARE ANCIENT galley has been discovered by underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio and his dive-team in the sunken city of Thonis-Heracleion, off Egypt’s Mediterranean coast.
The naval vessel is known to have sunk after being struck by large blocks from the temple of the supreme Egyptian god Amun, as it collapsed during a cataclysmic landslide in the 2nd century BC.
The galley had been moored at a jetty on the deep canal that flowed along the south face of the temple, and the falling blocks had pinned it to the canal-bed, preserving the remains as any spaces were filled in with debris.