Egypt retrieved on Thursday (August 21) submerged artefacts at the shore of the coastal city of Alexandria, Reuters reports.
“The artefacts that you see date back to successive periods, starting from the Ptolemaic era... until the Roman era," secretary general of the supreme council of antiquities, Mohamed Ismail, said.
The retrieved pieces are proof that the city continued to be lived in and developed throughout ages, since its construction by Alexander the Great in 331 BC, Ismail added.
According to a statement by the ministry of antiquities, surveys of the site confirm that it used to be a complete city, including buildings, temples, water cisterns, and fishponds.
Archaeological evidence suggest that the site may have been an extension of the city of Canopus, a famous ancient Egyptian port city in the Nile Delta, near modern Alexandria, the statement added.
