Herakleion and Menouthis were rich and proud cities until something reduced them to rubble and buried them in the mud beneath 30 feet of sea water, French underwater explorer Franck Goddio said at the American Geophysical Union conference.

• 法国水下探险家Franck Goddio在美国地球物理联合会大会上说，一些不明物质使Herakleion城和Menouthis城分化为 碎石并被埋到35英尺深的水下，在这之前这两座城市一直十分富足并让人引以为荣的。