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Environment and Agency in the Formation of the Eastern Ship Graveyard in the Central Basin at Thonis-Heracleion, Egypt

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Beneath the waters of Aboukir Bay at the edge of Egypt’s north-western Nile Delta , lies a vast submerged landscape. Here in this marshy and lagoonal area a major port developed in the early first millennium BC at the end of the Canopic branch of the Nile.

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Robinson, D., Goddio, F., Fabre, D. (2017). Environment and Agency in the Formation of the Eastern Ship Graveyard in the Central Basin at Thonis-Heracleion, Egypt. In: Caporaso, A. (eds) Formation Processes of Maritime Archaeological Landscapes. When the Land Meets the Sea. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48787-8_6

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