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Undersea Archaeologists Recover the Only Known Ring Engraved With the Lighthouse of Alexandria
Researchers suspect that the ancient bronze signet was used to notarize official documents.
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The entire island of Antirhodos, off the northern coast of Egypt and home to the royal seat of the ancient city of Alexandria’s Portus Magnus (“Great Harbor”), sank beneath the waves in 365 CE. For over 1,630 years, this imperial outpost and its treasures remained lost, if not forgotten, consumed by a tsunami that emanated from the monstrous July 21, 365 CE, earthquake that ravaged the nearby Mediterranean island of Crete.
Antirhodos’ rediscovery by French underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio in…
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