First Underwater Survey of Nile Turns Up Treasure

In the first underwater survey of the Nile, archaeologists are locating treasures that before they had only assumed they would be able to locate. It has long been suspected that that due to shifts in the Nile's course over the centuries and due to shipping accidents up and down the Nile that artifacts were just waiting to be discovered.

Below is a picture of a one ton rock found and retrieved from the entryway that once led to the temple of the ram-headed fertility god Khnum, experts say. This stone has inscriptions that could date from the 22nd dynasty (945-712 B.C.) to 26th dynasty (664-525 B.C.).

Who knows what other treasures lie beneath the surface of the Nile...waiting to be discovered.