Calgary Public Library

Sunken cities, Egypt's lost worlds, edited by Franck Goddio and Aurélia Masson-Berghoff

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrationsmaps

index present

non fiction

Sunken cities

bibliography

edited by Franck Goddio and Aurélia Masson-Berghoff

Egypt's lost worlds

Beneath the waters of Abukir Bay, at the edge of the northwestern Nile Delta, lie the submerged remains of once-lost ancient Egyptian cities that sank over 1,200 years ago, but were dramatically rediscovered in the last years of the 20th century. This book tells the story of how Egypt and Greece interacted in the late first millennium BC, from the founding of Thonis-Heracleion, Naukratis and Canopus as trading and religious centres to the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great, through the ensuing centuries of Ptolemaic rule to the suicide of Cleopatra and the ultimate dominance of Rome