THE SUNKEN CITY OF HERACLEION - EGYPT

THE SUNKEN CITY OF HERACLEION - EGYPT:

It was the most important port in Egypt during the last pharaonic period and one of the main commercial centers of that country. Until the sea swallowed it and it was forgotten.

That is the story of Thonis, better known today as Heracleion, a city at the mouth of the Nile River that shone for its opulence and prosperity 2,500 years ago.

Heracleion saw the fall of the last pharaohs and the beginning of the Hellenistic period, with Alexander the Great's conquest of Egypt in the 3rd century BC.

But about a hundred years later it was consumed by the sea, in an event that still remains a mystery.

The city had not only been legendary for its port. It also held an important place in Greek mythology: it was the place that Helen of Troy and her lover, Paris, visited before the Trojan War.

It was where the god Heracles - or Hercules according to Roman mythology - first set foot in Egypt. The latter gave the city religious importance since a famous temple was built in the place where Hercules supposedly arrived.

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