A set of European institute of sunken archaeology (IEASM) team member has reaches underwater in (abi qir bay), Egypt. Those are discovered ancient warships in the submerged city of Heraklion.
Heraklio is also call as Thonis in an Egyptian city located the near canopic mouth of the Nile river. During the second century BC at the end of so many natural disasters are happen in Heraklion.(Earthquakes, tsunamis, rising sea levels, and soil liquefaction) As a result, Heraklion has submerged. People are migrated with adjacent populations of Canopus and menouthis. during this time the ship traveling nearby the Amum temple. that time temple was collapsed by a seismic event. stones are falling in the ship and struck debris buried the ship to the depth of 5 meters at the bottom of the channel entombing the wreck in the layer of hardened clay
According to the Egyptian ministry of antiquities initial studies the height 25 meters and constructed classic flat-bottomed hull design used to tenon & Mortis joints. the ship was either sailed or rowed, were navigated the Nile and delta Nile. after finding the illustrates presence of Greek merchants who lived in that city.
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Franck Goddio ; “The finds of fast galleys from this period remain extremely rare, the only other example to date being the Punic Marsala Ship from 235 BC.” However, “Before this discovery, Hellenistic ships are unknown mysteries from archaeologists knowledge
Ehab Fahmy ; : “the mission also succeeded in finding the remains of a Greek funeral area dating back to the beginning of the fourth century BC, at the entrance of the northeast channel into the city, where the northeast entrance allow to settle during the late pharaonic era and the funeral temples near the main temple
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