Once three feet above sea level, Herakleion now lies buried about 20 feet below the surface in the sediments of the Bay of Abukir off the north coast of Egypt. |
Meanwhile, Napoleon's forces annihilated a series of Egyptian and Ottoman armies at the battles of the Pyramids, Mount Tabor, and Abukir. |
The archaeologists and geologists will return to the Bay of Abukir next spring to search for more clues of what sank the city of Herakleion. |
Underwater Antiquities hauled up from the Mediterranean seabed near the Eastern Harbour and the Bay of Abukir. |
The fleet of Brueys remained at anchor in the road of Abukir. |
The only two ships which remained to France of the fleet defeated in Abukir bay were captured, one of them by Nelson himself. |