A Sunken City Named Heracleion Gets Discovered After 1500 Years Source: Around The World - 11/22/13, by Kam Found a Goddess statue underwater 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, travelled to Heracleion, then a port of ‘great wealth’, with her glamorous Trojan lover, Paris. http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02548/heracleion-2_2548191k.jpg The team retrieves the statue of the god Hapi But until 2001, there had been no evidence of the city from this classical tale.
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