The scientists have found the proofs that on the place of the city Alexandria founded by Alexander Macedonian, even 700 years before that existed a large city. Before this moment it was considered that on the place of Alexandria was located a small fishermen village Rakotis. But the archaeological dig, held on the bottom of the Alexandria port, have shown that the size of the city was way bigger than the scientists have assumed.

At the moment the scientists are trying to find out the size of the discovered city. The dating by the radioactive carbon has helped to ascertain the approximate age of the ancient city: 1000 years BC.

“Such a thing often happens in science. The most interesting thing is that we weren’t searching for an ancient city”,- said Jean-Daniel Stanley from the Washington museum of natural history. Making the archaeological digs, the scientists were trying to find the answer to the question why have the Greek and Roman buildings sunk and in the end they have found the objects which refer to the earlier period.

J-D Stanley hopes that the research of Rakotis will be as much exciting as the discovery of the ruins of such ancient cities like Heraclion, Kanopus and Menotice near Alexandria in 1996.

Muhammed Abdel-Maksud, the expert on Alexandria from the Council on the antiquity of Egypt has reported that the discovery of Rakotis is only the beginning. “There are proofs that already in times of Pharaohs at this place was located a flourishing city, but for the moment it is early to talk about this. We are working on it”, – added M. Abdel-Maksud.