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Divers in Abu Qir Bay swim over a whole city: temple courtyards, harbour quays and statues over five metres tall. Thonis-Heracleion, Egypt's real Atlantis. Full story on Mythologia Geographic. #AncientEgypt #Atlantis #Archaeology

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00:00Off the coast of Egypt, divers swim down through the green dark and find a whole city under the sea,
00:06temple courtyards, harbor keys, and statues more than 5 meters tall, lying where they fell over a thousand years ago.
00:14The god Happy, Lord of the Nile Flood, a Ptolemaic King and his Queen, gold jewelry, coins, and the anchors
00:22of hundreds of ships. This is Thonis Heraclean, Egypt's real Atlantis, and unlike the Atlantis of legend, this one is
00:30real, mapped stone by stone under Abu Kerr Bay.

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