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What Scientists Just Found Deep in the Ocean Is Seriously Unbelievable (Photos)
This is diver Franck Goddio examining the enormous hand carved statue of a pharaoh. This statue stands roughly 16 feet tall and was found near a large temple under the sea.
Here is the head of a statue carved out of red granite depicting the god Hapi. Hapi is known as the god of the flooding of the Nile. Hapi is a symbol of abundance and fertility and has never been discovered at such a large scale before.
The divers and their team of researchers carefully lift the statue to the surface in order to preserve and protect this piece of history. It will reside safely in a museum.
Here the pharaoh, the queen and the god Hapi are laid on the barge next to a temple stele. The stele dates back to the 2nd century B.C.. It was found broken into 17 pieces however all were found and placed back together.
This gold plaque was found in the southern sector of the city. The text is written in Greek and acts as a signature for foundation deposits in the name of the king responsible for building this area. King Ptolemy III (246-222 B.C.)
In the reflection of this divers mask we see a bronze statue of the god Osiris. The crown is the typical insignia of power and this statue has eyes adorned with gold sheets.
Every single detail of this site in Aboukir Bay has been meticulously documented. Here a diver measures a red granite statues feet below the surface of the ocean.
A bronze oil lamp in excellent condition. This dates back to the 2nd century B.C.
Diver Franck Goddio showing off the size of this inscribed stele. This was ordered to be built by Nectanebo I sometime between 378 and 362 B.C.
The divers carefully lift the enormous stele out of the water where it has been for well over 1200 years.
Here the divers carefully inspect a stone full of gold fragments that date back to the 6th century B.C. I’m amazed that these are still in tact.
This is a shallow gold saucer that was used for drinking and serving.
This is an absolutely stunning statue found under the bay of a Ptolemiac queen. Most likely Cleopatra II or Cleopatra III dressed as the goddess Isis.
This red granite statue was also found near the big temple of Heracleion and weighs a massive 4 tons.
Here is a beautiful artifact, a Graeco-Egyptian statue of a queen carved out of dark stone.
This is the head of a pharaoh statue being raised to the surface. The statue measures over 5 meters and was carved out of red granite.
A bronze small figure of the pharaoh of the 26th dynasty found at a smaller temple in the underwater city of Heracleion.
This is an absolutely epic underwater find that has researchers scrambling to this part of the globe to learn about this incredibly beautiful Egyptian city. The fact that this city found underwater has been left untouched underwater for so many years is an amazing factor on its own let alone being a find as big as it truly is. These statues and artifacts are massive and nearly perfectly preserved. The attention to detail in these pieces is truly beautiful and I’m happy to see it being preserved with great care.
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Tineye these images.
A decade old a peice at LEAST.
BEFORE its news?
Not quiet.
At least provide references so people can find out actual information.
For example, actual facts about this 10 year old discovery can be found here:
http://www.franckgoddio.org/
And if you’re interested in seeing pieces from this research, and happen live near London, you’re in luck, as they are currently on display in the British Museum.
http://www.franckgoddio.org/service/news-newsletter/detail/article/exhibition-at-the-british-museum-london.html
Underwater museum seems to be a better idea
Most everything posted here is “long past it being news”. But that wouldn’t be as good a name for this rag, would it?
What is so awesome about bunch of pagan idol worshippers made ugly ass statues many thousand years ago? Our creator is the ONLY and original artist who designed and created the animal kingdom. You guys in the west are so into protecting the copyright of artists and patent holders, but what about the copyright violations that are being committed against the Lord almighty on a daily basis in the name of creating hideous artworks (i.e. dolls, idols and picture paintings of humans and animals)? Creating idols and making paintings of human and animals is a major sin in all three Abrahamic religions. Why do you so gleefully celebrate the finding of some hideous idols under the sea? The only good thing those ISIS animals have ever done in middle east is that they did destroy many pagan artifacts in ancient places. And those americant faggots had to cry in the media and install copycats of those awful artifacts in places like Jew York disregarding the historical fact that some of those artifacts symbolize human sacrifice. Now witch Hillary can gleefully summon World War III.
awesome
Awesome when they found this like a decade ago.
I hear they have an incredible water park in Heracleion !!!
LOL “just found”. Good stuff.
as an (now ex-) archaeologist i was lucky enough to join one of the dive teams at this site 12 years ago.
two days of diving are still vivid to this day. stunning sights,incredible preservation.
but JP,you don’t help your credibility by saying it is ‘just found’.
I don’t care what any of you think about my credibility. All strangers for the most part and don’t even use your real names on your comments.
My morale standing is lying down.
The source posted this as new news. Leave a memo in their drop box.
Neat that you were there though. xoxo
Ah….. Good Ol’ Cut-N-Paste.
Never spend even a minute or two to research an article for validity. Just wrack up the # of posts and move on to the next “borrowed” contribution. Setting a land speed record in the process.
Bravo!!!
Old or not, I have to give you credit
Great Pics, Great Story (that I had forgotten)
I liked it. One Possibility, (with this being BIN)
is to post a “Time Warp” followup report.
That should put an end to the Sarcasm!
“Lets do the Time Warp Again!”
Have a good day Jeffrey
RR
plsnogod..
You were part of Goddio’s team 12 years ago? Incredible! With this being possibly the greatest find of the century thus far, you HAVE to give up some details. I’m extremely curious to know your experiences and observations under Goddio.. Or were you with the Oxford Centre?
In what capacity did you serve, and did you attend the Heracleion Conference? In your opinion, what is the most significant aspect of the Heracleion discovery?
no i only dived for a couple of days,6 dives total,so i wasn’t working,just a tourist.
a good friend of mine,pro diver,knew zahi hawass(who,by the way,is not as bad as he’s sometimes portrayed)and we cadged an unofficial tag-along.
though my speciality was early hominid prehistory,it was by far the best experience i had in archaeology.
egyptology was a ‘hobby’ if you like.
i was lucky,we went down before most of the salvage work,so we got to see things in place.
beautiful!
I envy you that. I’ve seen and researched numerous places and ideologies around many parts of the world but “under the seas” is an experience I lack.
Very cool.. so glad to hear about this from you.
Thanks for the info and story. Would not be meeting someone personally from the expedition if not for this “old” story. =)
yeah, right? Who knew..
anyway, I like seeing this here. A find and exposition of this, even now, is worthwhile and worth repeating.. why not?
okay JP,i hold my hands up. apologies for the critic.
old story or new story,seems many people enjoyed it.
so bravo to you.
Was that Aladdin’s lamp? I want that!
Somethings not right here. Herculaneum which had disappeared, was found in the 80′s. Raised a big stink, because for the first time they had physical evidence, that all the lands were linked. The statues of “Hercules” and other ‘gods’ had their names, as by the Hebrew coven law of that time, in every language of every land. So “Hercules” had all his other names, on the pedestal, as did the other ‘gods’. This sounds like the same dig, but slightly differently named.
“This sounds like the same dig, but slightly differently named.”
Really?? How so?
Herculaneum was a Roman town in what is now part of Naples, Italy. Heracleion is Egyptian and located in Aboukir Bay.
No?
Now what delayed this post for at least 10 years?
That would be something to know.
Actually, information concerning the findings of Heracleion were released to the public in 2013, so, just over three years would be accurate, not over ten.
Correct me if I’m wrong.
Probably could prove existence of Planet X (Nibiru), it’s Noah’s Ark tsunami pole shifts?
Close, but not quite,
The positioning of the statues was proven to disprove all theories
about gravity.
Flat Earth Theory is the only answer for this positioning peculiarity.
RR
God bless the god Hapi!
Don’t that pretty?
Is easy to pick things up if you put them there. I am a rigger I know. One give away the blocking of the holes they had drill and cover up in the slab.
Unbelievable. How is it that this keeps popping up as ‘just discovered’? It was found in the 1980′s.
Recently it was again posted here on B.I.N. and it was posted as “just discovered”. Now this article.
Yup, and it’s 3 months old on BIN too if you check the post date.
BIN syndicates stories if the author checks a box, means you get to see garbage repeated numerous times.
It’s a pretty lame system, that leads to garbage articles and garbage”authors” getting more clicks than they deserve.
They want these times back, I do not.
What times? What are you talking about?
Not too likely these artifacts were dumped out to sea. Could have resulted from pole shift, Planet X (Nibiru) whizzing past Earth, plates shifting? What will happen next? NYC under water, etc?