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Wide of a modern building with the ancient city, known as Leukaspis or Antiphrae, in the foreground2. Various of ancient city streets and structures3. Mid of stone...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television News\u003cbr/\u003eMarina, Near Alexandria - September, 7th, 2010 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of a modern building with the ancient city, known as Leukaspis or Antiphrae, in the foreground\u003cbr/\u003e2. Various of ancient city streets and structures\u003cbr/\u003e3. Mid of stone benches by a structure\u003cbr/\u003e4. Various of Greek columns and bright limestone walls \u003cbr/\u003e5. Various of ancient city site with modern building in the background\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): Khaled Abou El Hamd, Head of Marina site restoration, \u003cbr/\u003e\" The new discovery goes back to the Greco-Roman era and this The ancient city, used to accommodate the elite, was known as the Antiphrae which means freedom, this city was against slavery which was common at that time, this ancient city was famous for its luxury, a huge trade centre and a port exporting wheat to Rome.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Pan and tilt from tomb up to stone pillars\u003cbr/\u003e8. Stone sculpture\u003cbr/\u003e9. Greek carvings on stones\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide of pillars\u003cbr/\u003e11. Villas in the ancient city\u003cbr/\u003e12. Various of the artificial lagoon built over the port\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic)  Abdel Baset abdel Fattah, Local inspector for the antiquities department,\u003cbr/\u003e \"The importance of the discovery that it is a rare example of a Classical era city Greco-Roman port city, everything is here unlike Alexandria, you may found tombs somewhere and houses in another but not connected as this site all in one place\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide of city\u003cbr/\u003e15. Deep burial chambers of the city's necropolis\u003cbr/\u003e16. Various of ancient fragments of pottery on the ground and bones in open tombs.\u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide of ancient city street.\u003cbr/\u003eNearly 25 years after its discovery, Egyptian authorities are preparing to open\u003cbr/\u003ethe ancient city of Leukaspis to the public. \u003cbr/\u003eThe site is a rare example of a Classical era city in a country better known for its pyramids and Pharaonic temples.\u003cbr/\u003eToday, it's a sprawl of luxury vacation homes where Egypt's wealthy play on the white beaches of the Mediterranean coast. \u003cbr/\u003eBut 2,000 years ago, this was a thriving Greco-Roman port city, boasting villas of merchants grown rich on the wheat and olive trade.\u003cbr/\u003eThe ancient marina city, known as Leukaspis or Antiphrae, was hidden for centuries after it was nearly wiped out by a 4th Century tsunami that devastated the region.\u003cbr/\u003eMore recently, it was nearly buried under the modern resort of Marina in a development craze that turned this coast into the summer playground for Egypt's elite.\u003cbr/\u003eThe history of the two Marinas is inextricably linked. \u003cbr/\u003eWhen Chinese engineers began cutting into the sandy coast to build the roads for the new resort in 1986, they struck the ancient tombs and houses of a town founded in the 2nd Century B.C.\u003cbr/\u003eAbout 200 acres were set aside for archaeology, and protected from development. \u003cbr/\u003eThe ancient city yielded up its secrets in a much more gradual fashion to a team of Polish archaeologists who excavated the site through the 1990s.\u003cbr/\u003eA portrait emerged of a prosperous port town, with up to 15,000 residents at its height, exporting grains, livestock, wine and olives to the rest of the Mediterranean.\u003cbr/\u003eKhaled Abou El Hamd is head of the Marina site restoration.  \u003cbr/\u003e\" The discovery goes back to the Greco-Roman era and this The ancient city, used to accommodate the elite, was known as the Antiphrae which means freedom, this city was against slavery which was common at that time, this ancient city was famous for its luxury, a huge trade centre and a port exporting wheat to Rome.\" he says. \u003cbr/\u003eMerchants lived in elegant two-story villas set along zigzagging streets with pillared courtyards flanked by living and prayer rooms.\u003cbr/\u003eRainwater collected from roof ran down special hollowed out pillars into channels under the floor leading to the family cisterns. \u003cbr/\u003eWaste disappeared into a sophisticated sewer system.\u003cbr/\u003eAround the town centre, where the two main streets intersect, was the social and economic heart of the city. \u003cbr/\u003eThe remains of a basilica, a hall for public events that became a church after Christianity spread across the Roman Empire can still be found here. \u003cbr/\u003eA semi-circular niche lined with benches underneath a portico provided a space for town elders to discuss business before retiring to the bathhouse across the street.\u003cbr/\u003eGreek columns and bright limestone walls up to six feet high (2 meters) stand in some places, reflecting the sun in an electric blue sky over the dark waters of the nearby sea. \u003cbr/\u003eVisitors will also be able to climb down the steep shafts of the rock-cut tombs to the deeply buried burial chambers of the city's necropolis.\u003cbr/\u003eIt is from the sea from which the city gained much of its livelihood. It began as a way station in the coastal trade between Egypt and Libya to the west. \u003cbr/\u003eLater, it began exporting goods from its surrounding farms overseas, particularly to the island of Crete, just 300 miles (480 kilometres) away, a shorter trip than from than Egypt's main coastal city Alexandria which is 62 miles (100 kilometres) from Marina. \u003cbr/\u003eAnd from the sea came its end. \u003cbr/\u003eLeukaspis was largely destroyed when a massive earthquake near Crete in 365 A.D. set off a tsunami wave that also devastated nearby Alexandria. \u003cbr/\u003eIn the ensuing centuries, tough economic times and a collapsing Roman Empire meant that most settlements along the coast disappeared.\u003cbr/\u003eToday, the remains of the port are lost. In the late 1990s, an artificial lagoon was built, surrounded by summer homes for top government officials.\u003cbr/\u003eHowever, Egyptian government interest in the site rose in the last few years, part of a renewed focus on developing the country's Classical past.\u003cbr/\u003eIn 2005 a USAID project to turn ancient Marina into an open air museum for tourists got underway. \u003cbr/\u003eIt couldn't have come at a better time for ancient Marina, which had long attracted covetous glances from real estate developers.\u003cbr/\u003eRedoing the site is part of a plan to bring more year-around tourism to what is now largely a summer destination for just Egyptians _ perhaps with a mind to attracting European tourists currently flocking to beaches in nearby Tunisia during the winter.\u003cbr/\u003e Abdel Baset abdel Fattah is the local inspector for the antiquities department. \u003cbr/\u003e \"The importance of the discovery that it is a rare example of a Classical era city Greco-Roman 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