Good as gold! Trove of 2,000-year-old treasure pulled from underwater city off coast of Egypt | Metals Mine

  • Good as gold! Trove of 2,000-year-old treasure pulled from underwater city off coast of Egypt

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    A tantalizing trove of treasure from a 2,000-year-old underwater city was pulled from the sea off the coast of Egypt Thursday, much to the delight of art and history buffs. The ancient artifacts — including statues of a sphinx and a pharaoh — from the long-submerged city of Canopus were lifted by crane from the shallow waters of Abu Qir Bay, Egyptian officials said. “There’s a lot underwater, but what we’re able to bring up is limited. It’s only specific material according to strict criteria,” Sherif Fathi, Egypt’s tourism and antiquities minister, told reporters, according to NBC. “The rest will ... (full story)

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