Know about the secrets of sunken city of Egypt, Heracleion

New Delhi: You must have heard about the Lost city of Atlantis which got submerged into the sea mysteriously and discovered by the archeologists in the recent past. But there is another interesting yet mysterious city that has been unraveled by the archeologists in Egypt.This city is known as ‘Heracleion', which sunk into the sea around 1200 years ago, that is revealing the secrets behind what life was like in the legendary port city. Now let's explore this mysterious yet interesting city in pics.For a very long era Heracleion was a city of amazing wealth mentioned by Herodotus, visited by Helen of Troy and Paris, her lover, but apparently obscured under the sea.Indeed, Heracleion was factual, and a decade after divers began revealing its reserves, archaeologists have created a depiction of what life was like in the city in the period of the pharaohs.The archeologists and divers have exposed the ruins of over 64 ships buried in the thick mud and sand that now cover the ocean floor. Gold coins and weights made from bronze and stone have also been found.Huge 16 foot statue have been exposed and brought outside while archaeologists have discovered hundreds of smaller statues of trivial gods on the sea bed. At the heart of the city lies an enormous temple to the god Amun-Gereb, the highest god of the Egyptians at that period. There is a vast arrangement of canals and channels, which permitted the city to become the most significant port in the Mediterranean at that time. Archeologists still have little clue of what caused the city to sunk into the water nearly 1,000 years afterward, but it is considered that regular sea level rise collectively with an unexpected crumple of the unsound sediment the city was built on caused the area to drop by around 12 feet.Sooner or later the city got washed out from reminiscence and its existence, along with other lost settlements along the coast, was only known from a few prehistoric texts.