Egypt
News: Finds from Heracleion
USA Today
The Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology released the monograph of a sunken stone stele discovered in the city of Heracleion dating to the reign of the Greek Pharaoh Ptolemy VIII before 116 B.C. The stele, inscribed in Greek and Hieroglyphs, details the religious rules governing the recovery of plundered items and temple asylum offered by priests to penitents.
Divers recovered the 19-foot-high stele from the seafloor of the Nile Delta.
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Rosetta Stone Unlocks Egyptian History
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The Exodus, Finding The Exact Date
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