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    Geoarchaeologists have recently come up with some interesting information concerning the site of an important ancient and still-existing city founded by and named for a great historical figure. What have they discovered?

    Question #83877. Asked by lanfranco. (Jul 27 07 5:19 PM)


    queproblema

    		Jean-Daniel Stanley's Smithsonian team just found an urban settlement under Alexandria that existed seven centuries before Alexander the Great founded the Egyptian Alexandria.

    http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/008200707271056.htm

    Jul 27 07, 5:32 PM
    lanfranco

    		Yes, indeed. I've been known to hand out silver plumb-bobs on archaeological questions, and since they seem to have been invented by the Egyptians, you get one here, qp:


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumb-bob

    Jul 27 07, 5:40 PM

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