Egypt OKs Exploration of Underwater City
Egyptian authorities have approved the underwater exploration of what appears to be an ancient Roman city in the Mediterranean Sea.
An excavation team found the ruins of the Roman city 20 miles east of the Suez Canal on the country’s north coast, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said in a statement this week.
Archeologists found buildings, bathrooms, ruins of a Roman fortress, ancient coins, bronze vases and pieces of pottery that all date to the Roman era, which lasted from 30 BC to AD 337.
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