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Since 1996 a team of professional underwater archaeologists working at the site where the sunken palace of Cleopatra, off the Egyptian Mediterranean coast in Alexandria.

The Alexandria of those times was a magnificent city, the palaces and temples drew their profile and the population reached 100,000 people. Nearby the lighthouse was built 130 meters high, its library housed nearly half a million papyrus.

Part of the royal quarter with its temples, palaces and gardens, were at the port in the east of the city. Ports is the Magnum, the area in the east of Alexandria where luxury and power around the life of Cleopatra, Antony and his court.

For centuries, researchers thought that this large complex where he lived and reigned Cleopatra, was destroyed by a series of earthquakes, but since 1996 we have been excavations have discovered that these palaces are located under the waters of the Mediterranean.

The underwater archaeological team has discovered all kinds of items from coins and everyday objects to colossal granite statues of Egyptian rulers and submerged temples dedicated to their gods. Many of its treasures are fully intact, covered with sediment to protect them from salt water.