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If Ozymandias is a sonnet to make your spine tingle, this is a show to move you to tears of wonder. For well over a millennium, the once famously magnificent Egyptian cities of Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus had faded to near-myth. Only ancient texts remained to recount their glories; to tell of soaring temples and towering statues, sacred offerings and fleets of boats.
Then, in the 1990s, the maritime archaeologist Franck Goddio began making the investigations that would lead to what must surely count among the greatest archaeological discoveries. Beneath the turbid waters of Abu Qir Bay, protected by century upon century of silt deposited from the Nile, he began to uncover the hidden secrets of a long buried Atlantis.
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