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In 2021 divers opened a 2,400-year-old wicker basket at Heracleion still holding doum palm fruit and grape seeds — plus a 25-metre Ptolemaic galley. Full story on Mythologia Geographic. #Archaeology #AncientEgypt #Discovery

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00:00In 2021, divers in Abu Hur Bay opened a wicker basket that was 2,400 years old.
00:08Inside it, still sitting where someone had left it, was down palm fruit and grape seeds.
00:14Food placed in a basket by a human hand in the ancient world and preserved in the silt for over
00:202,000 years.
00:21In the same season, they found a 25-meter Ptolemaic galley.
00:26Built with Greek and Egyptian shipbuilding joined in a single hull, a ship and a temple, fallen together into the
00:33mud.

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