Pharos City Discovering : Seabed Features of The Egyptian Mediterranean harbors, Alexandria

ISBN-13: 9783659852688 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 128 str.

Mohamed M. Abou-Mahmoud

Opis

Alexandria was founded around a small Ancient Egyptian town c. 331 BC by Alexander the Great. It became an important center of the Hellenistic civilization and remained the capital of Hellenistic and Roman and Byzantine Egypt for almost 1000 years. Hellenistic Alexandria was best known for the Lighthouse of Alexandria (Pharos), one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World; its Great Library (the largest in the ancient world; now replaced by a modern one); and the Necropolis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages. Alexandria was the second most powerful city of the ancient world after Rome. Ongoing maritime archaeology in the harbor of Alexandria, which began in 1994, is revealing details of Alexandria both before the arrival of Alexander, when a city named Rhacotis existed there, and during the Ptolemaic dynasty. Therefore, this book provides a new discovery from a sunken antiquities of this city harbors which identify by marine geophysical survey complemented by diver observations, 2011. Other benefits to spot on the current situation for this city wise the pollutants. Study areas suffer from pollutant as indicated by diver observations.

O autorze

Mohamed M. Abou-Mahmoud, Geoscience, Ph.D. (Geophysical Prospecting), Earth Science Dept., Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. M.Sc. (Geophysics), Physics Dept., Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt. Researcher, National Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of High Education and Scientific Research, Egypt.