Hotep in a Scuba Diving Suit: Egyptian Artifacts Found Off Egyptian Coast

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What Scientists Just Found Deep In The Ocean Is Seriously Unbelievable. I'm Still In Shock

What Scientists Just Found Deep In The Ocean Is Seriously Unbelievable. I’m Still In Shock

• FACEBOOOff the coast of Egypt divers have discovered something that was thought to be lost a long time ago. It was said that the ancient city of Heracleion was lost under the sea for good. Well 1200 years later, off the bay of Aboukir, this ancient city has finally been discovered. The city dates back to the 6th century B.C. and holds some of the most beautiful artifacts you could imagine. Things like grand statues of gods and goddesses standing well over 15 feet tall and carved out of red granite, treasures of gold and rare stones, elaborate temples and enormous tablets. This find is enormous in the historical preservation community and has been commissioned by museums around the world. Take a look at this incredible city found underwater.

This is diver Franck Goddio examining the enormous hand carved statue of a pharaoh. This statue stands roughly 16 feet tall and was found near a large temple under the sea.

Here is the head of a statue carved out of red granite depicting the god Hapi. Hapi is known as the god of the flooding of the Nile. Hapi is a symbol of abundance and fertility and has never been discovered at such a large scale before.

The divers and their team of researchers carefully lift the statue to the surface in order to preserve and protect this piece of history. It will reside safely in a museum.

Here the pharaoh, the queen and the god Hapi are laid on the barge next to a temple stele. The stele dates back to the 2nd century B.C.. It was found broken into 17 pieces however all were found and placed back together.

This gold plaque was found in the southern sector of the city. The text is written in Greek and acts as a signature for foundation deposits in the name of the king responsible for building this area. King Ptolemy III (246-222 B.C.)

In the reflection of this divers mask we see a bronze statue of the god Osiris. The crown is the typical insignia of power and this statue has eyes adorned with gold sheets.

Every single detail of this site in Aboukir Bay has been meticulously documented. Here a diver measures a red granite statues feet below the surface of the ocean.

A bronze oil lamp in excellent condition. This dates back to the 2nd century B.C.

Diver Franck Goddio showing off the size of this inscribed stele. This was ordered to be built by Nectanebo I sometime between 378 and 362 B.C.

The divers carefully lift the enormous stele out of the water where it has been for well over 1200 years.

 

[Milk]

This gold plaque was found in the southern sector of the city. The text is written in Greek and acts as a signature for foundation deposits in the name of the king responsible for building this area. King Ptolemy III (246-222 B.C.)

What were Greek text doing in ancient Egyptian artifacts?

 

[BOXINGGEMS]

Funny how the nose of the statues are always gone once the pictures come out but nothing else is missing.

 

[Kitsch]

What were Greek text doing in ancient Egyptian artifacts?

It makes perfect sense, Rosetta Stone was issued in 196 BC.

 

[Dominoes]

What were Greek text doing in ancient Egyptian artifacts?

By that time the Assyrians, Persians, then Greeks had ruled Egypt. If we're being really real, these discoveries come from an era of non-African dominance in ancient Egypt starting from about 600bc with the Assyrians and including the Greek takeover around 300bc.

Dope discovery still

 

[Fox]

What Scientists Just Found Deep In The Ocean Is Seriously Unbelievable. I'm Still In Shock

• FACEBOOOff the coast of Egypt divers have discovered something that was thought to be lost a long time ago. It was said that the ancient city of Heracleion was lost under the sea for good. Well 1200 years later, off the bay of Aboukir, this ancient city has finally been discovered. The city dates back to the 6th century B.C. and holds some of the most beautiful artifacts you could imagine. Things like grand statues of gods and goddesses standing well over 15 feet tall and carved out of red granite, treasures of gold and rare stones, elaborate temples and enormous tablets. This find is enormous in the historical preservation community and has been commissioned by museums around the world. Take a look at this incredible city found underwater.

 

[Milk]

It makes perfect sense, Rosetta Stone was issued in 196 BC.

By that time the Assyrians, Persians, then Greeks had ruled Egypt. If we're being really real, these discoveries come from an era of non-African dominance in ancient Egypt starting from about 600bc with the Assyrians and including the Greek takeover around 300bc.

Dope discovery still

Thanks for the info!