Minggu, 04 Desember 2011

The new findings in the Ancient Egyptian city of Seabed

A thousand years buried in the seabed, the Ancient Egyptian temple was finally beginning to surface water removed. Ancient Egyptian temple ruins which were buried in the bottom waters of the Mediterranean Egyptian archaeologists began to be appointed to the surface of the water. Structure of ancient granite gate of Cleopatra's palace complex excavated from beneath the waters of the ancient port city of Alexandria.

Appointment pylon parts (main gate) entrance to the Temple of Isis is an important element in an ambitious project launched by the underwater archeology of Egypt. The site of the ancient city was submerged due to a devastating earthquake events that occurred around the fourth century AD.

The divers and underwater archaeologists using giant cranes to haul tons pylon 9-foot-high 7.4. When transported to the surface he was covered with mud and covered with seaweed. This work is directly supervised by Egypt's top archaeologist Zahi Hawass.

A temple dedicated to Isis (goddess of fertility and magic figure of Ancient Egypt) was estimated at least 2050 years old. He is part of the magnificent palace of Queen Cleopatra of unity century BCE (BC), and his successor in the reign of the Ptolemaic dynasty ruled Egypt.

Palaces, monuments and other buildings from that period found buried beneath the waters of the floor area of ​​the port city of Alexandria, as the second largest city in Egypt. Archaeologists exploring the ruins had been under water since the 1990s. Temple of Isis Greek team of archaeologists discovered in 1998.


















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