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canopus, a sacred
city beloved by cleopatra,

Lost for over 1,000 years.

when
cleopatra would have gone

Down this canal,

People lining the banks,
musicians, priests praying.

it was a city,
gleaming with treasures

And rich in wonders.

the great
temple. Beautiful statue.

Gold everywhere. Everywhere.

famous
for its holy rituals.

pilgrims
from across the known world

Would come to receive
healing from the gods.

and infamous
for its earthly pleasures.

anything you
ever desired or wanted

Could be found in
the city of canopus.

but it was
doomed to destruction.

the whole city was
right on the edge of the land,

Extremely vulnerable,
very exposed.

now,
thanks to a unique,

Cutting-edge excavation,

Cleopatra's lost city of
canopus has been found.

An ancient egyptian atlantis
submerged beneath the waves.

the discovery
is far bigger

Than we dream
we will ever find.

It is the single most important
archeological discovery

Of this, the 21st century.

the relics of
the past hold secrets.

Written in gold,

Stone,

And blood.

We can unlock them.

These are the secrets of
history's greatest treasures.

Ancient egypt, an
empire that produced

Some of the world's
greatest treasures.

For centuries scholars have
marveled at its wonders

And puzzled at its complex
religions and rituals.

But there are still
secrets to be uncovered.

Including one of egypt's
greatest mysteries,

The lost city of canopus.

canopus was actually
a really very famous city,

Situated right on the
mediterranean coast

Of the egyptian delta,

And one that really
captured the imagination

Of ancient writers.

It was known for being

An incredibly important
religious center.

This was a cosmopolitan,
lively, busy, bustling city,

That would have had people
coming in from outside

To go to the temples and
maybe also to partake

In the annual festivals.

egypt's pharaohs
were regular visitors,

Including the
legendary cleopatra.

But despite the city's fame,

Canopus has been lost
for over 1,000 years.

let's say, for
example, if venice vanished,

That's the kind of level that
we're talking about here.

people have been
speculating as to where it was

And how to find it?

But it is surprisingly
difficult to find a lost city.

now, a team led

By renowned maritime
archeologist franck goddio,

Is scouring the seafloor

In search of this ancient
egyptian sunken city.

I thought that if canopus
has not been found on land,

It was for the very good
reasons that it was not on land,

And most probably under the sea.

and what
they find is bigger

And more spectacular than
they could ever have dreamt.

something tiny would
have thrilled us.

But instead, we found
something much more amazing.

the late 1990s.

Franck goddio and his
team are searching

For canopus in
egypt's nile delta.

Goddio has pinpointed
a site in abukir bay,

16 miles northeast
of alexandria,

Based on a handful of cryptic
references in ancient texts.

it was the exact
distance between alexandria

And the city of canopus, as
written in many documents.

using cutting-edge

Geophysical scanning technology,

It takes a team of 50 leading
experts and archeologists

Two years to scour the
bay's 200 square miles.

But identifying a possible
site is just the start.

Then they're faced
with the challenge

Of an archeological
investigation under

20 feet of seawater.

archeology's difficult.

Archeology underwater
is 10 times harder.

The visibility for the
divers is very poor.

And you can't see anything
except the immediate area

That you're working in.

but finally, in 1999,

Goddio's team make a discovery

That will unearth the
great lost city of canopus

And rewrite the history
of ancient egypt.

so we start and we dig
down through the sand

And we start
finding, "oh my gosh,

"it's a portion of a sphinx."

There's a haunch, there's
a paw, there's a tail.

We know that we're on the trail,

We know that there's
something nearby.

But we don't know,
you know, what it is,

We don't have a feeling that
this is the spot, not yet.

close to the sphinx,

Goddio and his team make
a monumental discovery.

We found the remain
of a beautiful,

Large foundation wall.

it becomes clear
this was once a building,

Of truly colossal proportions.

it was three-meter
thick, and it started to extend

And extend as we
were excavating it.

30 meter, 50 meter, 80 meter,

100 meter, 103 meter long.

Beautifully built.

it's the size of
a football field

With these immense
foundation walls.

And you realize
that if the walls

That had sat on top of this
foundation were still intact,

They would come out of
the surface of the sea

At sea level today.

the structure's
size and quality mean

It could only have
been one thing.

A temple.

And this temple is so
enormous it must have sat

At the heart of a large,
and seemingly, holy city.

sometimes the
visibility improves

And you stand up
and you look up

And you really get the sense
of the grandeur of the city,

Of the size of the temple,

And of the importance
and the impact

It must have had on
the people visiting it

Thousands of years ago.

but is it canopus,

The city goddio and the
team set out to find?

The answer lies just a few
feet from the vast temple,

With a discovery of equally
colossal proportions.

we found a huge
colossus head, made in marble.

It must correspond
to a statue

Which was four, five-meter high.

a statue of that size

Must have represented
the temple's main god.

little by little, when
we uncover that statue

From the sand covering him,

It was obvious that
we were in front

Of the main god of that
city, the god serapis.

it was the
breakthrough goddio and his team

Had been searching for.

Because the egyptian god serapis

Was intimately linked
with the city of canopus.

Ancient egyptian cities

Were known for one
thing or another.

They would have a
specialty, let's say.

At canopus, this was an
extremely famous temple

That was called the serapeum.

this temple was
dedicated to the god serapis

And described by the
first-century

Greek scholar strabo
in his account of the city.

strabo writes, "it
contains the temple of serapis,

Held in great veneration,

And celebrated for
the cure of diseases."

So what strabo is
referring to here

Is a temple that was
extremely important,

Extremely well
known at that time,

Where people would come
to receive healing powers

From the gods.

to
goddio and the team,

Finding the colossal
head of serapis,

Next to a huge temple,

In a city at the
exact same distance

From alexandria mentioned
in ancient accounts,

Could mean only one thing.

We found canopus.

It was exciting and all the
team was extremely happy.

we had no idea the
amount of detail

And the amount of artifacts
that we would find.

it's certainly not
every day

That you find an entire city

And a city that has
been sunk no less.

it's really exciting,
to have this city

That you've heard
about or read about,

Become real before
your very eyes.

as the
excavation spreads out

Across the seafloor,

A dazzling treasure trove
emerges from the sand.

Statues, buildings, jewelry,

And religious artifacts
spanning at least 2,500 years.

These paint a picture of a
city steeped in religion.

And reveal what was, until now,

One of ancient egypt's
most secret rituals.

A ceremony witnessed by
the most iconic queen

In egyptian history, cleopatra.

One mile off egypt's
mediterranean coast,

Archeologists have discovered

The lost ancient
city of canopus.

to find a legendary
missing city.

It's something beyond
the wildest imagination.

But we did.

over three decades,

Underwater archeologist
franck goddio

And a team of experts
and archeological divers,

Have uncovered a spectacular
treasure trove of finds

In this ancient
egyptian sunken city.

Coins, gold coins,
everywhere, everywhere.

Statue from different period.

Red granite statues, marble
statues, head of pharaohs.

And, a lot of ceramic,
intact ceramic.

the city dates back

To at least the
sixth century bc.

But the discovery of
a spectacular statue

Reveals canopus

Flourished during the reign
of one particular dynasty.

Notorious in the history
of ancient egypt,

The family of cleopatra,

Egypt's last pharaoh and
most celebrated queen.

we found a
fantastic statue.

The impression we had when we
found that statue underwater,

Was unbelievable.

It's one of the most
beautiful statues

Ever made in the world.

the statue is hands down,

The most aesthetically
accomplished,

The most spectacular,

Beautiful masterpiece
I've ever seen.

to egyptologist

And art historian
dr. Bob bianchi

This statue is more
than simply beautiful.

Its exquisite craftsmanship
reveals the people

Who propelled the
city to new heights

Of splendor and wealth.

And they did it by
blending the culture

Of two great civilizations.

we have a completely
new statue type!

Something new and novel,

That no one had ever
thought of creating before.

It is created in black granite,

Which is a quintessential
egyptian hard stone.

But the treatment of the body,
the treatment of the drapery,

And how the body
reacts to the drapery,

Those are details that
are decidedly greek.

the statue's new
style heralds the

Arrival of a new power
in egypt in 305 bc.

The family of cleopatra,
the ptolemies.

the ptolemies
were originally

From northern greece.

They took over egypt after the
death of alexander the great.

And they've ruled egypt
for about 300 years,

With the last ptolemy, being
perhaps the most famous,

The great cleopatra.

the ptolemies
cemented their power

By blending their own
beliefs, culture, and gods

With those of their
egyptian subjects.

they wanted to
maintain hold of such a rich

And strategically
important country.

And so there was a
lot of propaganda,

A lot of tactful
maneuvering with religion.

this statue
of a ptolemy queen

Was part of this
propaganda campaign.

It's evidence of the
ptolemies' supreme skill

In rebranding themselves.

And of their close
personal connection

With the city of canopus.

the fact that we have
such a beautiful statue

Simply gives us visual proof

Of the importance of
the city of canopus.

In the dynasty of
the ptolemies,

Beauty, sculptural achievement,

And political-religious
importance blend together.

with the
city just 16 miles

From their capital alexandria,
egyptologists are convinced

The ptolemy pharaohs themselves
would have visited canopus.

Pharaohs that
included cleopatra.

we have found very
close to the temple,

Many coins from cleopatra,
with her profile.

2,000 years ago,
this city would have welcomed

The ancient world's
most celebrated queen.

She would have gazed
at its statues.

Visited its temples.

But what drew cleopatra here?

What made the city so important?

Egyptologists believe a
clue lies in an inscription

Written in 238 bc during the
reign of cleopatra's ancestor

Ptolemy iii, "the
canopus decree."

we know from
this decree

That canopus was seen
as extremely important.

It says that it was
the first and foremost

Temple in the country and the
one that was the most precious

To pharaoh and his family.

the decree describes

A grand religious procession.

Along a custom-built
ceremonial waterway,

Leading directly to the
great temple in canopus.

it says that canopus
was linked by a canal

To a neighboring town and that
this was extremely important

As a processional way.

incredibly,
goddio has now found

The very same canal
mentioned in the decree.

And it's full of
archeological evidence

That suggests a religious
or ritual purpose.

All along the channel we
found ritual instruments.

A kind of bronze ladle.

Sometimes we were finding

A lead model of a
processional barge.

And also we found statuettes
of the god osiris.

it seemed the
statuettes depicting osiris

Had been thrown into the canal.

But during conservation,
it becomes clear

These were undamaged, and
in some cases, brand new.

People hadn't discarded
them in the canal,

They'd placed them
there deliberately,

As ritual offerings.

But what ritual were
they celebrating?

The answer plunges
egyptologists deep into a world

Of ancient myth
and obscure magic.

And reveals the secret ceremony

That drew cleopatra
and her dynasty,

To this extraordinary,
enigmatic city.

Beneath the waves of
the mediterranean sea,

Excavations are
revealing the fabled

Ancient egyptian
city of canopus,

That flourished under the
royal dynasty of cleopatra.

A canal, packed with offerings,

Suggests she and her ancestors

May have been drawn to the city

By some kind of
religious ritual.

But what mystical rites
did cleopatra witness here?

The answer comes
with one of the most

Extraordinarily
preserved discoveries

From the underwater site.

The remains of a
2,500-year-old wooden boat,

Found in the canal
leading directly

To the city's great temple.

we found a very
special shipwreck

That attracted our interest
from the very beginning,

Like a magnet.

this boat
is strikingly similar

To those depicted on the walls
of egypt's temples and tombs.

A ceremonial barge which
the ancient egyptians

Believed transported the
dead to the afterlife.

But the material the
canopus barge was made of

Leads franck goddio to suspect

It wasn't intended for a mortal.

It belonged to a god,

Inextricably linked
with the city, osiris.

we were intrigued by
the wood

That ship has been built in.

It was sycamore wood.

For the egyptian,
everything made of wood

Referring to the god osiris
is made in sycamore wood.

egyptologists
suspect the barge,

Along with the offerings
scattered around it,

Are physical evidence of one
of ancient egypt's most sacred,

And secret, ceremonies.

A series of rituals,
re-enactments, and processions,

That cleopatra herself would
undoubtedly have witnessed.

Known as the
mysteries of osiris.

the mysteries of
osiris was one of the biggest,

If not the biggest event in
the ancient egyptian calendar

And was intimately
tied up with canopus.

osiris was the
lord of the underworld,

The king of the dead,

And the original
ancient egyptian mummy.

one of the key themes
about osiris and his myth

Is the promise of resurrection,

Which was an integral
part of egyptian belief.

Osiris is shown to us
as a mummiform figure,

He's got these bandages
and then a shroud over him.

according to
ancient egyptian legend,

The god osiris was murdered
and dismembered by his brother.

His sister and wife,
the goddess isis,

Reassembled and
rebuilt his body.

She wrapped it in bandages

And molded new body
parts from clay

In order to bring
osiris back to life.

So osiris is the first mummy,

And therefore
mummification became a part

Of ancient egyptian religion.

Osiris was crucial for
the ancient egyptians

Because he helped
guarantee their afterlife.

And also, because he
ensured, to a large extent,

The fertility of the soil and
the rebirth of egypt itself.

it was believed
the worship of osiris,

And in particular, the
mysteries of osiris

Was essential for the survival

Of the pharaoh and the nation.

for the ancient
egyptians,

Religion was part
of their daily life.

It's something you
don't even think about.

So religion and rituals were
very key to their existence.

but ancient
inscriptions provide few details

Of this most secret
of festivals.

we have very limited
information

About the osirian mysteries.

There are occasional texts,
we have bits and pieces,

But you never really
know if you're getting

The original truth

Or just something that
someone had told someone else.

the one recurring
detail is the procession

Of an effigy of the god osiris.

what we read from
the ancient texts

Is that a barge
carrying his cult statue

Would have come from a
neighboring town to canopus.

and now, after
centuries of speculation,

Franck goddio has
found physical proof

Of this spectacular ceremony.

The sacred barge,

The ceremonial canal,

And the ritual offerings.

What makes franck
goddio's discovery

At canopus so spectacular,

Is we now know what
the boat looked like.

He also found small votive
boats that were deposited,

We had no idea
that they existed.

And more significantly,
he found the canal.

So we now know the
means and the route,

And that discovery opens up
a whole new window for us.

through these
incredible discoveries,

It's possible to picture
this most spectacular

And important of
religious festivals,

That promised eternal
life for the pharaoh,

And their nation.

cleopatra came,
for sure,

Many time for different
reason in canopus,

But, of course, to celebrate
the mysteries of osiris there.

It was her duty,

To celebrate the mysteries
of osiris every year.

when cleopatra went
to celebrate

The osirian mysteries,

She would have gone
down this canal to canopus.

Incense burning and billowing
out, people lining the banks,

Musicians, priests praying,
holding these osiris figurines,

All believing in osiris,
hailing this god.

So it was a very,
very festive occasion.

And the modern analogy I make
are festivals that we have

On great holidays, mardi gras,
rose bowl, thanksgiving day.

the
mysteries of osiris,

With its public festivities
and secret ceremonies,

Is what drew cleopatra and the
ptolemy dynasty to canopus.

But cleopatra's earthly life

Would soon be cut
brutally short.

And once again, the evidence
comes from the seafloor.

we found inside it a
beautiful statue,

Nearly intact.

Beautifully preserved.

this bust introduces
a new power to canopus.

One that would
conquer egypt in 30 bc.

And send cleopatra to her death.

These sunken ruins
are the remains

Of one of egypt's
most sacred cities.

Canopus, beloved by
generations of pharaohs,

Including cleopatra.

A 25-year excavation has
revealed the great temple

She would have visited,

As well as the sacred
rituals she witnessed there.

But cleopatra's love
affair with the city

Was about to be
cut cruelly short.

In 30 bc the romans
invaded egypt.

Faced with imprisonment,
humiliation, and perhaps death,

Cleopatra took her own life...

And left the city's fate
hanging in the balance.

The romans, when they took
over egypt you would think,

"oh, they're taken over,
they hate cleopatra,

"they're going to
destroy everything."

instead a
large 2,000-year-old bust

Reveals the romans
didn't destroy canopus.

They celebrated and
embellished the city,

Even adding their own hybrid
egyptian and roman gods.

This is a representation

Of the nile river personified,

Named nilus.

The way the drapery is carved,
the way the hair is carved,

The treatment of the beard,
the treatment of the anatomy.

All of these details
suggest the date

In the roman imperial period

After the death of
cleopatra the great.

egypt's
last pharaoh was dead.

But canopus was very much alive.

Under the romans the
sacred city flourished,

Attracting the rich and
famous from across the empire.

Even the roman emperor hadrian

Was mesmerized by
the city's charms.

we know that hadrian
was particularly

Enchanted by canopus

Because in his villa,
the villa hadriana,

In a place called
tivoli, outside rome,

He does seem to have made
some sort of replica.

hadrian's
tribute to the sacred city

Was also known as canopus

And featured a scaled-down
version of its ceremonial canal.

Lined with crocodiles and
statues of egyptian gods.

He was very much
inspired by canopus,

To the extent that he wanted
to bring it home to rome.

by the
first century ad,

The egyptian city of canopus

Was one of the most
fashionable places on earth.

Pilgrims flocked to it in
search of holiness, healing,

-And hedonism.

the roman
historian strabo,

Writing shortly after
the death of cleopatra,

Describes how
citizens of alexandria

Would board pleasure yachts,
and they would sail to canopus.

And onboard, they would
eat, drink, and be merry.

And when they got to
canopus, it was party city!

not surprisingly,

Many visitors had more than
religion on their minds.

canopus, has a very,
very salacious reputation

Among the romans.

The roman poet martial
describes canopus

In the following terms:

"canopus is the
place where you find

The most beautiful
women in the world.

"and they're willing to oblige."

He goes on to say that
anything you ever desired

Or wanted could be found
in the city of canopus.

So, canopus is this place of
sensuous physical delights.

the city
seduced the romans.

Goddio's excavations reveal
they vastly extended canopus,

Building villas,
baths, and temples.

the city became even
more important

During the roman time
than during the ptolemaic time.

from the age
of the ancient pharaohs

In the sixth century bc,

Through the ptolemies and
cleopatra, to the romans,

Despite seismic political
and cultural changes,

Canopus had flourished
for at least 1,000 years.

But nothing lasts forever.

As the divers continue to
explore the sunken city,

They begin to notice
something strange.

all sculptures
have been broken.

The head, cut.

The hand, cut.

The body sliced into pieces.

That temple has been
obviously ransacked.

a sacred city that
had survived for millennia.

A temple that had
stood for centuries,

Attracting everyone
who was anyone

From across the ancient world.

Wiped from history in a
single, savage action.

Something had turned the romans'
love for canopus to hate.

And clues to that something
lie scattered in the ruins.

egypt had gods that
were egyptian gods, greek gods,

Roman gods, gods
from the near east,

Persia, all sorts of
divinities, all mixed together,

And you would pray to different
ones for different things.

but in the
fourth century ad,

The roman empire embraced
a new official religion,

Christianity.

And the city's rulers would
tolerate only one god.

For over 3,000 years, egypt
had been open and accepting

To all kind of faith.

And suddenly you have this,

It is us and nothing
else, going on.

in 391 ad,

Emperor theodosius
ordered the destruction

Of all pagan monuments
across egypt,

Unleashing an orgy of
violence in the sacred city.

the quite amazing
thing is that we actually know

How canopus was destroyed.

There's a greek writer writing
in the fourth century ad

Called eunapius, who
actually writes about it.

"they demolished the
temple of serapis,

And made war against
the temple offerings.

Only the floor of the temple
of serapis they did not take,

Simply because of the
weight of the stones,

Which were not easy to
move from that place."

Now, this is quite extraordinary

Because we know from the
archeological investigations

That the foundation stones
were still in place.

So this is really quite
a sensational moment

Where text meets archeology
and they fit perfectly.

christianity destroyed

Cleopatra's sacred city

And then resurrected it.

Excavations reveal a vast
monastery, shrines, and churches

Were built on top
of the ruined city,

Using rubble from the
great temple itself.

what this suggests
was that the christians

Still appreciated
this as a holy place.

What we see then is
the religion changing

From ancient egyptian
to christian,

But that the sacred nature
of the space remains intact.

over a millennia,
canopus had been shaped

By four of the ancient
world's great civilizations:

The ancient egyptians, greeks,
romans, and christians.

one of the things
that's wonderful about canopus

Is that you can see the
layers of its flourishing,

Its destruction,
its resurrection.

now, as
a christian city,

Canopus continued to thrive
for another 400 years.

But it was living
on borrowed time.

Modern geological research
reveals the city was doomed

To disappear beneath the waves

Because this corner of egypt
sits at the junction of four

Of the great tectonic plates

That make up the
earth's surface.

because of
canopus' location,

It was susceptible
to natural disasters.

over the centuries,

The city was blighted
by earthquakes,

Tsunamis, and floods, but its
appeal remained undiminished.

whether you are in
ancient egypt or in california,

People sometimes live in places

Where they know it's
dangerous and are sort of,

"let's keep our fingers
crossed and our eyes closed

And it might not happen to us."

now, one
extraordinary discovery

Could reveal how the
people of canopus

Tried to protect
this most precious

And vulnerable of cities.

Using a supernatural weapon.

It was the atomic bomb of egypt.

franck
goddio's 25-year mission

Has revealed the complex
history of egypt's greatest

And most sacred
lost city, canopus.

For at least 1,000 years,

The low-lying city teetered
on the water's edge,

Blighted by earthquakes,
floods, and rising seawater.

The whole city of canopus
was extremely vulnerable,

Very exposed, and in a
really precarious situation.

yet despite the
dangers, egyptians, greeks,

Romans, and christians were
irresistibly drawn to canopus.

Why did they risk
the wrath of nature

To build their most
sacred monuments here?

Now, one of goddio's most
breathtaking discoveries

Reveals they may have
believed the city

Was protected by a
divine magical talisman.

We were finding
some broken statue.

And all the sudden,

We found a big fragment

Of black granite.

I thought such a flat
surface, it's strange.

everybody gathered
around it

And were checking it out.

But even with that buzz,

We had no idea how important
it would actually be.

the slab's surface

Is covered with hundreds
of inscriptions.

It's only when one of the
team's experts deciphers them

That the stone's true
importance becomes clear.

She look at me and say,
"but this is a joke.

I cannot believe what I see."

it was a piece
of one of ancient egypt's

Most enigmatic
monuments, a naos,

A shattered
2,500-year-old shrine.

Over the years, several
pieces had been found

Close to where goddio would
eventually discover canopus.

Together, these
suggested the naos

Was a complex
astronomical manual.

the naos would
have been used

By learned priest astronomers

In order to understand the
workings of the universe.

It would be like going
to a planetarium today

To try to understand
how the planets move

And how the stars move.

the naos is an
ancient egyptian calendar.

It calculates the
length of the year

Based on the
movement of 36 stars

That appear in the night sky

One after the other at
regular 10-day intervals.

The astronomical
event is interesting

Because if you
multiply the 36 stars

Times their 10-day interval,
you end up with 360.

to this,
the naos adds five days

For the creation of the world.

this
2,500-year-old slab of granite

Was one of the world's first
accurate 365-day calendars.

But during goddio's excavation,

He discovered a total
of four new pieces.

And they reveal the naos
is even more important

Than experts imagined.

Because, like an
ancient egyptian version

Of the book of genesis,

It describes how the
world itself was formed.

that monument
is one of the most

Important monuments of egypt.

It refers back to the
beginning of time.

This text is the text of
the creation of the world,

According to the egyptians.

this particular naos
contained the cult statue

Of the god of atmosphere,

Who in the very, very
beginning was responsible

For raising up the sky and
placing all the stars in it.

So it explains the origin
of what we would call

Our solar system.

but as well as
describing how egypt was born,

The naos was created to ensure
the country would never die.

for each period
of 10 days,

There is astrological curse

Saying what will happen
to the enemy of egypt,

If ever they tried to harm
egypt during that period.

And they are terrible curses.

the naos
threatened egypt's enemies

With a terrifying
litany of painful fates.

Plagues, blood clots,
paralysis, and death.

this monument was
the ultimate weapon

Protecting egypt.

It was the atomic bomb of egypt.

but in the
eighth century ad,

This ultimate weapon failed.

A catastrophic natural disaster

Plunged the city
below the waves.

It toppled
the christian monastery's

Mighty granite columns,

Forcing its citizens
and visitors to flee,

Dropping their possessions
on the monastery floor.

the fact that we can
discover

All those pieces of jewelry

And gold coins, is a
proof that that monastery

Has disappeared in a
fraction of a second.

13 centuries later,

The shattered ruins of
the city's monastery

Capture the violence
of this moment.

across from the
monastery, we found a fault

Which had cut the
monastery into two pieces.

goddio believes
this massive chasm

Can only have been caused
by a violent earthquake,

That shook the ground
until it turned to liquid.

if you look at the size
of the architectural remains,

That franck has recovered
from the seabed,

It had to have been a
major, major earthquake,

To topple such enormous
stone monuments.

the holy
city's final moments

Would have been
a vision of hell.

As the shaken, sodden
ground liquefied,

The monastery's mighty
columns toppled,

And its walls cracked in two.

It was a complete, sudden,
unexpected, cataclysmic end

To this bustling,
brilliant city.

now, 13
centuries later,

Thanks to the dedication
of goddio and his team,

Canopus has resurfaced

To reveal a spectacular
city populated by saints

And sinners.

Pharaohs and emperors

That witnessed obscure
rites and illicit pleasures,

Great wonders and
terrible disasters.

If you think about the
broad arc of history,

This one site has
withstood so much.

The egyptians, the ptolemies,
the romans, the christians.

And I think that's
really quite special.

there you have a
real ancient city

That you can imagine
what it's like

To walk down the streets.

You know which temple is
here, what temple is there.

And that makes you
so close to the past.

It's fantastic. It's a
really amazing discovery.

the discovery is far
bigger and far more interesting

Than we ever could
dream we will ever find.

if you look at the years

That franck goddio
has been excavating,

With the persistence,
with the scientific tools,

That tenacity, and the
knowledge of the ancient texts,

All combine, to make this
remarkable discovery,

Which really ranks as one of
the most amazing discoveries

Of the 21st century.