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AP In this photo released by Franck Goddio/HiltiFoundation, a diver inspects limestone blocks that form

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Slideshow:Sunken ruins of Cleopatra's temple excavated

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By JASON KEYSER, Associated Press Writer Jason Keyser, Associated Press WriterTue May 25, 2:01 pm ET

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt Plunging into the waters off Alexandria Tuesday, divers explored thesubmerged ruins of a palace and temple complex from which Cleopatra ruled, swimming over

heaps of limestone blocks hammered into the sea by earthquakes and tsunamis more than 1,600years ago.

The international team is painstakingly excavating one of the richest underwater archaeologicalsites in the world and retrieving stunning artifacts from the last dynasty to rule over ancientEgypt before the Roman Empire annexed it in 30 B.C.

Using advanced technology, the team is surveying ancient Alexandria's Royal Quarters, encaseddeep below the harbor sediment, and confirming the accuracy of descriptions of the city left byGreek geographers and historians more than 2,000 years ago.

Since the early 1990s, the topographical surveys have allowed the team, led by Frenchunderwater archaeologist Franck Goddio, to conquer the harbor's extremely poor visibility andexcavate below the seabed. They are discovering everything from coins and everyday objects tocolossal granite statues of Egypt's rulers and sunken temples dedicated to their gods.

"It's a unique site in the world," said Goddio, who has spent two decades searching forshipwrecks and lost cities below the seas.

Click the image to see photos of the excavation of Cleopatra's sunken temple

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APThe finds from along the Egyptian coast will go on display at Philadelphia's Franklin Institutefrom June 5 to Jan. 2 in an exhibition titled "Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt."The exhibition will tour several other North American cities.

Many archaeological sites have been destroyed by man, with statues cut or smashed to pieces.Alexandria's Royal Quarters ports, a cape and islands full of temples, palaces and militaryoutposts simply slid into the sea after cataclysmic earthquakes in the fourth and eighthcenturies. Goddio's team found it in 1996. Many of its treasures are completely intact, wrappedin sediment protecting them from the saltwater.

"It's as it was when it sank," said Ashraf Abdel-Raouf of Egypt's Supreme Council ofAntiquities, who is part of the team.

Tuesday's dive explored the sprawling palace and temple complex where Cleopatra, the last ofEgypt's Greek-speaking Ptolemaic rulers, seduced the Roman general Mark Antony before theycommitted suicide upon their defeat by Octavian, the future Roman Emperor Augustus.

Dives have taken Goddio and his team to some of the key scenes in the dramatic lives of thecouple, including the Timonium, commissioned by Antony after his defeat as a place where hecould retreat from the world, though he killed himself before it was completed.

They also found a colossal stone head believed to be of Caesarion, son of Cleopatra and previouslover Julius Caesar, and two sphinxes, one of them probably representing Cleopatra's father,Ptolemy XII.

Divers photographed a section of the seabed cleared of sediment with a powerful suction device.Their flashlights glowing in the green murk, the divers photographed ruins from a temple to Isisnear Cleopatra's palace on the submerged island of Antirhodos.

Among the massive limestone blocks toppled in the fourth century was a huge quartzite blockwith an engraving of a pharaoh. An inscription indicates it depicts Seti I, father ofRamses II.

"We've found many pharaonic objects that were brought from Heliopolis, in what is now Cairo,"said Abdel-Raouf. "So, the Ptolemaic rulers re-used pharonic objects to construct theirbuildings."

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On the boat's deck, researchers displayed some small recent finds: imported ceramics and localcopies, a statuette of a pharaoh, bronze ritual vessels, amulets barely bigger than a fingernail, andsmall lead vessels tossed by the poor into the water or buried in the ground as devotions to gods.

Alexandria's Eastern Harbor was abandoned after another earthquake, in the eighth century, andwas left untouched as an open bay apart from two 20th century breakwaters while modern

port construction went ahead in the Western Harbor. That has left the ancient Portus Magnusundisturbed below.

"We have this as an open field for archaeology," Goddio said.

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The Franck Goddio Society: http://www.franckgoddio.org

The Franklin Institute: http://www.fi.edu

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