Heracleion
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Heracleion, also known as Thonis and sometimes called Thonis-Heracleion, was an ancient Egyptian port city located near the Canopic Mouth of the Nile, about 32 km northeast of Alexandria on the Medite
Painting of Prometheus getting his liver eaten by an eagle. Diodorus would claim that Heracles stopping the flood of the Nile river would later become the myth of him slaying this eagle and freeing Prometheus.
The stela of Ptolemy VIII from the temple of Heracleion
Ptolemaic coins from the submerged Heracleion
Nile Delta
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The Nile Delta is the delta formed in Lower Egypt where the Nile River spreads out and drains into the Mediterranean Sea. It is one of the world's largest deltas. From Alexandria in the west to Port S
Heracleion
…from the Ancient Egyptian: Tȝ-ḥn.t; Coptic: Ⲧϩⲱⲛⲓ Thōni) and sometimes called Thonis-Heracleion, was an ancient Egyptian port city located near the Canopic Mouth of the Nile, about 32 km (20 mi) northeast of Alexandria on the Mediterranean Sea. It became inundated; its remains are located in Abu Qir Bay, which…
The Nile Delta at night as seen from the ISS in October 2010.
Nile River and Delta
Ancient branches of the Nile, showing Wadi Tumilat, and the lakes east of the Delta
The Nile Delta at the time of Herodotus, according to James Rennell (1800)