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Sunken temple and sanctuary from ancient Egypt

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A better source might be the acheologists' own website:

https://www.franckgoddio.org/projects/sunken-civilizations/h...

There's a good video from a couple years ago there exploring the same site, I guess the news is a new cache of artifacts, not the discovery of the temple itself.

In this case, the second half of the headline is the more relevant part of the news, even though it may read like clickbait: "Sunken temple and sanctuary from ancient Egypt found brimming with 'treasures and secrets'"

Changed from https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/su.... Thanks!

If you're interested in Egyptology, highly recommend "Empress of the Nile", about Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt who led many of the most notable archeology projects in the 1900's.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/61239984

The thing I’m confused about from the article is that, if I read it correctly, the temple was found a few miles from the coast. Did the Nike delta use to extend that far? Or what? That seems to be pretty far.

Yes the nile delta used to extend further than ~4 miles from the current coast. For more details, see here --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleion

The entire sentence says, "The former city, now underwater and about 4.3 miles (7 kilometers) from Egypt's modern-day coast, was destroyed when a major earthquake and tidal waves caused the land to liquefy and sink into the Nile delta."

That seems pretty clear. The land sank below sea level during the earthquake.

Clearly Atlantis has been found.

They always say that when a sunken city is found.

There's a lot more than you would think!

Per the legend, atlantis was a chain of islands connecting Europe and America; when the last one of those sunk, Sahara had risen, turned into a desert, and the tidal waves washed away Egypt.

I'm sure it has been suggested, but are we sure it isn't describing the flooding of Doggerland?

Per legend, it’s past the Mediterranean, past the pillars of Hercules and towards the apples of Hesperides.

Well, Plato clearly thought it was in the Atlantic Ocean, but the legend came via Solon from an Egyptian priest. The whole point of the story was that Athenians didn’t know their own history— as they fought off the Atlantians.

There are a few reasons to believe that it refers to the pillars of Hercules in the Black Sea— and the apples of Hesperides are in the East (first stars seen at night) by the mountains where Atlas held the earth (Caucasus mountains).

Just saying, underwater archaeology in the Black Sea is going to be very, very exciting.

Reading the Plato on it, vaguely sounds like someone describing continental drift, but in a way that would be easier for people of the time to understand.

I'm just imagining this im sure, they couldn't have known about it.

There's islands out there (canaries, azores). My guess is a big tsunami event happened, washed out some town, survivors show up in ports around the med saying the place has sunk because that's a pretty good descriptor of a tsunami for ancient people, and the legend goes from there.

The melting of the icecap raised the oceans worldwide by 400 feet. Sometimes very quickly (as meltwater lakes broke through barriers). (OTOH, tsunamis go away.)

My guess is rather that the underlying land was pushed to the sea over the years by the flow of water and sediments.

Didn’t Alexander worship at the temple of Amun? And where is his tomb??

This work is no doubt grueling at times but wow, would be fun to uncover the past like this. Very cool stuff.

> No Stargate reference in commentaries

Son, I am disappoint.

Beware of Eranikus I guess.

Particularly if his knock-back sends you into the hole.

So they found the (Xel) Naga temple?

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