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Beneath the shifting waters of Alexandria’s eastern harbour, on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, lie the drowned remnants of a once-splendid city – ports, palaces and temples swallowed by the sea.

Beneath the shifting waters of Alexandria's eastern harbour, on Egypt's Mediterranean coast, lie the drowned remnants of a once-splendid city - ports, palaces and temples swallowed by the sea.