D-Bone
May 11th '06, 09:26 AM
Traces of pollutant lead found in harbor sediments have revealed that Alexander the Great did not found the Egyptian city of Alexandria ? he just rebranded it.
One of antiquity?s most opulent economic and cultural centers, Alexandria is named after the Macedonian emperor Alexander the Great, who was believed to have ordered its construction on the western branch of the Nile River in 331 B.C.
But new geochemical data, published by Alain V?ron from the Paul C?zanne University in Aix-en-Provence, France, and colleagues in the current issue of Geophysical Research Letters, revealed that this part of the Nile was settled 4,500 years ago, more than two millennia before Alexander's arrival.
Read More: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060508/alexandria_his.html
One of antiquity?s most opulent economic and cultural centers, Alexandria is named after the Macedonian emperor Alexander the Great, who was believed to have ordered its construction on the western branch of the Nile River in 331 B.C.
But new geochemical data, published by Alain V?ron from the Paul C?zanne University in Aix-en-Provence, France, and colleagues in the current issue of Geophysical Research Letters, revealed that this part of the Nile was settled 4,500 years ago, more than two millennia before Alexander's arrival.
Read More: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060508/alexandria_his.html