Re-Discovering the Lost Egyptian Port of Heracleion After 1,200 Years Under the Sea

In 2001, a joint French-English expedition was searching the bottom of Egypt’s Aboukir Bay for the wrecks of French warships sunk in the “Battle of the Nile” in 1798.  Instead they re-discovered a lost city.  Known as Thonis to the Egyptians and Heracleion to … Continue reading