A burial mound discovered 7 km off the coast of Egypt in Thonis-Heracleion offers up many discoveries, among them fruit preserved for 2,400 years in wicker baskets under the sea
that “[wicker baskets filled with fruit that have survived from the 4th century BC and hundreds of ancient ceramic artefacts and bronze treasures] have lain untouched since the city disappeared beneath the waves in the second century BC, then sank further in the eight century AD, following cataclysmic natural disasters, including an earthquake and tidal waves.”
The discovery of the tumulus speaks to the existence of Greek merchants and mercenaries in Thonis-Heracleion. IEASM’s news release describes the city as controlling the entrance to Egypt at the mouth of the Canopic branch of the Nile. “The Greeks were allowed to settle in the city during the late Pharaonic period [712-332 BC]. They built their own sanctuaries close to the huge temple of Amun. Like the temple of Amun they were destroyed in the cataclysm in the 2nd century BC.
The galley was moored in the canal by the temple, and the blocks falling from the temple of Amun sank it down, while protecting it from future events. The news release notes that the galley “lies under five metres of hard clay mingled with the remains of the temple and was only detected through the use of a cutting-edge prototype sub-bottom profiler.”
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