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It may not be the lost city of Atlantis, but it is close enough! Egypt’s sunken cities of Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus, known in modern times as the lost kingdom of Cleopatra, was not something anyone expected to find beneath the sea off Alexandria. It was a French archaeologist, Franck Goddio, who dedicated his entire life to searching for remnants of lost civilizations from the past, who found the colossal face emerging from the watery shadows. It was one of the greatest archaeological finds of recent times and a proof of the strong ties between Greece and Egypt in ancient times.
Haaretz reports that excavation of the necropolis at the ancient city of Phanagoria in southern Russia has unearthed the 1,900-year-old grave of a woman who may have been a priestess of the Aphrodite cult and a man who was buried 1,500 years ago with a sword thought to have been forged in Iran.
Experts in the UK have discovered that an ancient Greek marble slab which had spent more than a century in storage is inscribed with the names of graduates of the Ephebic College, an elite military academy that prepared young Athenian men for adulthood, British broadcaster ITV reported on Thursday.
Egyptian archaeologists unearthed the ruins of a temple for the ancient Greek god Zeus in the Sinai Peninsula, antiquities authorities said Monday.
It was sometime between 1900 and 1902 when an ancient Greek shipwreck was discovered off the coast of Antikythera, south of the Peloponnese, and inside it, a mysterious mechanism with intricate inner workings.
Fragments of the 2,100-year-old Antikythera Mechanism, believed to be the earliest surviving mechanical computing device, are seen on display at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Many ancient civilisations had their own calendrical systems. Of these, the Greek calendar is most likely the most confusing. The Greek Calendar is much like ancient Greece itself. It shared a certain basic similarity from region to region, but each city-state kept its own version.
In what can be seen as a symbolic act supporting the campaign for the return of the Parthenon sculptures, fragments were transferred from the National Archaeological Museum to the Acropolis Museum on Monday, following a request made by the Acropolis Museum General Director.