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divers recover the stunning artefacts of Cleopatra's palace

2,500 maillot de foot pas cher years old: A maillot foot pas cher statuette of a nouveau maillot de foot 2015 boy pharaoh dating from the 5th century BC lies among other maillot de foot france artefacts brought to the surface from an underwater excavation of a palace vente de maillot de foot and maillot de foot pas cher temples of Cleopatra

Using advanced technology, the team is

Since the early Nineties the topographical maillot de foot france 2014 surveys have allowed the team, led by French underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio, to conquer the maillot foot france maillot de foot personnalise 2014 harbour's extremely poor visibility and excavate below the seabed.

They are discovering everything from coins and everyday objects to colossal granite statues of Egypt's rulers and sunken temples dedicated to their gods.

Fit for a queen: Stone plates are a mere fraction of the priceless statues, jewellery and artefacts being brought to the surface from one of the richest underwater archaeological sites in the world

Many archaeological sites have been destroyed by man, maillot de foot 2015 with statues site de maillot de foot cut or smashed to pieces.

Alexandria's Royal Quarters ports, a maillot foot pas cher cape acheter maillot de foot and islands full of temples, palaces and military outposts simply slid into the sea after cataclysmic earthquakes in the fourth and eighth centuries.

Mr Goddio's team found it in 1996. Many of its treasures maillot de foot personnalisé are completely intact, wrapped in sediment protecting them from the maillot de foot discount salt water.

dive explored the sprawling palace and temple complex where Cleopatra,

the last of Egypt's Greek speaking Ptolemaic rulers, seduced the Roman

general Mark Antony before they committed suicide upon their defeat by

Octavian, the future Roman Emperor Augustus.

Dives have taken Mr Goddio and his team to some of the key scenes in the dramatic lives of the couple including the Timonium, commissioned by Antony after his defeat as a place where he could retreat from the world, though he killed himself before it was completed.

They also found a maillot de foot colossal stone head

believed to be of Caesarion, son of Cleopatra and previous lover Julius

Caesar, and two sphinxes one of them probably representing

Cleopatra's father, Ptolemy XII.

Divers photographed a section of the seabed cleared of sediment, their flashlights glowing in the green murk, the divers photographed ruins from a temple to Isis near Cleopatra's palace on the submerged island of Antirhodos.

Among the massive limestone blocks toppled in the fourth century was a huge quartzite block with an engraving of a pharaoh. An inscription indicates it depicts Seti I, father of Ramses II.

'We've found many pharaonic objects that were brought from Heliopolis, in what is now Cairo,' said Mr Abdel Raouf.

'So, the Ptolemaic rulers re used pharaonic objects to construct their maillot foot france buildings.'

On the boat's deck, researchers displayed some small recent finds: imported maillot de foot 2014 ceramics and local copies, a statuette of a pharaoh, bronze ritual vessels, amulets barely bigger than a fingernail, and small lead vessels tossed by the poor maillot football pas cher into the water or buried in the ground as maillots de foot pas cher devotions to gods.

Alexandria's eastern harbour was abandoned after another earthquake, in the eighth century, and was left untouched as an open bay apart from two 20th century breakwaters while modern port construction went ahead in the western harbour. That has left the ancient Portus Magnus undisturbed below.