Antirrhodos Island

Key

1. Strabo, a geographer, visited Alexandria circa 27 BC and described the island as, "The private property of the kings, which has both royal palace and a small harbor." Maps later mistakenly placed the island further East;

2. Ceremonial Gateway;

3. Red Granite columns over four feet in diameter;

4. Sphinxes found here;

5. Priest's statue found here;

6. Temple to Isis may have been here;

7. Wreck of a Roman Boat;

8. Third Harbor;

9. Red granite colmns found;

10. Limestone pavement found throughout the island;

11.Wooden foundations; These indicate a structure 200 feet long dating from 250 BC.

12. Carbon Dating has fixed the date of construction as circa 450 BC;

13. Possible site of Cleopatra's Palace.

14. GODDIO (French Underater Archaeologist) -- "Using nuclear magnetic resonace, magnetometers and the satelite-based Global Positioning System, Goddio's team mapped the land mass that was submerged under 16 to 20 feet of water, probably by the earth-quake of AD365.  Many artifacts have been located beneath a three foot layer of sediment.  For centuries, scholars speculated on the great treasures of Cleopatra's Palace.  Yet, all the while, clues lay beneath the waters surface in the port.