Archaeologists find ancient Egyptian warship sunk near Alexandria
Fitting that Diodorus should post this to hn.<p>&quot;So far, archaeologists have explored less than five percent of the ancient city.&quot; So still much more to come.<p>The story of Heraklion is a great example of climate change and its impacts on human civilization.<p>The other story of Heraklion is its great multiculturalism; it exhibits both Greek and Egyptian influences. I am always fascinated when I hear other nerds describe the process of learning Western history as &quot;begin with the Greeks.&quot; And we often base Western civilization upon Greek thought, Roman law. At the same time, I am reminded of the story of Thales who supposedly learned his mathematical talents from Egypt. The interconnection between the two worlds seems obvious to me today, and I often wonder the reasons Westerners usually begin (and, for some, end) with the Greeks.<p>Hopefully Heraklion&#x2F;Thonis can teach us more about the interrelations between Greece and Egypt; not only how they traded, but who they sat in between, how long this city had been here, did the Sea-Peoples (Phoenicians if you ask me) trade here, and were the populations of Greece and Egypt far closer in cultural heritage than we acknowledge today.