
“While searching under the waves of Alexandria’s East Bay for Greek and Roman ruins, archaeologists discovered signs of building construction 700 years older than Alexander the Great’s invasion of Egypt. The conquerer founded Alexandria in 332 B.C.” [National Geographic]
“The new find is "the first hard evidence” of Rhakotis, a town mentioned in several histories of the region but whose existence had never been substantiated, said geoarchaeologist Jean-Daniel Stanley of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History.“