Berthe Morisot Boats on the Seine painting

Berthe Morisot Boats on the Seine painting
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres The Grande Odalisque painting

After more than four years of underwater searching and digging, archaeologists today displayed the remains of a vanished Egyptian city.
The scientists discovered Herakleion, the precursor to the once-powerful capital of Alexandria, beneath the sand under just 10 or so yards of water.Today, they showed off some of their most impressive finds atop a barge, including 20-foot-tall pink granite statues representing a pharoah, a queen and Hapi, the Nile goddess of flooding; and a 10-ton black granite stela, or engraved stone, with "Rahinet," the Egyptian name for Herakleion, inscribed on its bottom. 'Mouth of the Sea’The stone, some 19 feet tall and 9 feet wide, had been in 15 pieces under the sea bottom, and was one of the largest ever found. The scientists also displayed another such slab, about one-third the size.