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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 1:32 pm Post subject: Scientists stunned by ancient city under Alexandria

Scientists stunned by ancient city under Alexandria

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from correspondents in Cairo

July 28, 2007 01:00am

ALEXANDER the Great founded Alexandria to immortalise his name. But someone got there before him.

Scientists have found evidence of an urban settlement at the site 700 years before Alexander's arrival in 331BC.

Little is known about the site in pre-Alexandrian times other than that a fishing village called Rhakotis was there.

Geo-archaeologist Jean-Daniel Stanley of the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History said his team's work suggests the village was much larger.

The discoveries came by accident when the team drilled underwater in Alexandria's harbour.

Their project was actually part of a study of the subsiding Nile delta.

Scientists extracted sticks of core sediment to try to understand what happened to cause Greek and Roman structures to become submerged.

But the cores contained ceramic shards, organic matter and minerals that reflected human activity from about 1000BC.

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