Enlarge (credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities) Twenty-four hundred years ago, Heraklion was ancient Egypt’s largest port on the Mediterranean Sea. Today, the ancient city lies submerged beneath Abu Qir Bay, a few kilometers off the coast of Alexandria. Archaeology recently discovered the wreck of a warship from the city’s final years buried in the […]
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Divers Found a sunken WWII Boat that may Include the Amber Room
These sealed crates can hold anything. (charge: Tomasz Stachura/ / Baltictech/Handout through REUTERS) A World War II shipwreck lately found off the shore of Poland could hold the dismantled portions of the Amber Room, also a Russian treasure looted from the Nazis and dropped since 1945. The mess of the German steamship Karlsruhe is located […]