Heracleion: Ancient Egyptian metropolis lost for 1,200 years below Mediterranean sea is discovered

Heracleion, a much prosperous and a known city had been engulfed underwater 1500 years ago. This grand city had also been mentioned by the Greek writer Herodotus, the 5th-century BC historian. He had told a wonderful tale of Helen of Troy, the most beautiful woman in the world, who had launched a thousand ships, traveled to Heracleion, then a port of ‘great wealth’, with her glamorous Trojan lover, Paris.

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