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Alexandria
After being hidden for centuries, the sunken Royal Quarters was found in the East harbour of Alexandria.
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Canopic Region
Through the most recent discoveries in the Bay of Aboukir, lost history comes to light!
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Lena Shoal
A Ming dynasty junk brought back to the light after centuries of silence under the China sea near Lena
Shoal.
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Napoleon
Franck Goddio and his team excavated wreckage of sunken ships from part of the fleet of Napoleon.
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Royal Captain
In 1773 on its way from Canton to Balambangan the ship hit a shoal and was lost.
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Santa Cruz
Franck Goddio’s excavation of the 15th century Santa Cruz junk off the Philippine coast turned out to
be one of the greatest Ming Dynasty findings ever made.
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Underwater heritage
The mysteries of the sea have always been an object of fascination. It is a place where the rules we
live by do not apply; a world beyond our imagination where we can only be a guest. In those depths lies
buried a legacy.
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Our objectives
For centuries, archaeologists tried to discover this legendary city in which the dramas between Cleopatra,
Julius Caesar, Marc Antony und Octavius took place. The royal city of the last Egyptian Dynasty (Ptolemaic
Dynasty), where Cleopatra VII, the last queen of ancient Egypt, ruled and died, was lost in a series
of earthquakes.
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Which subject matters
Alexandria was founded in 331 B.C. by Alexander the Great. The last Egyptian queen, Cleopatra VII,
took her own life in 30 B.C. The royal quarters sank beneath the sea after a series of earthquakes and
tidal waves. They had led to gradual subsidence in the 4th century A.D.
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Keep on moving
Alexandria was considered to be Egypt’s most important trading metropolis on the Mediterranean in Ptolemaic
times. With a population of 500,000 and regarded as a cultural and scientific center, Alexandria was
noted for its commerce and wealth. The city, with its world-renowned library containing 700,000 systematically
archived scrolls, attracted many scholars in these times.
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