Mali frees Resolute executives after $160 million deal, AFP reports
The three executives, including CEO Terry Holohan, were freed from detention on Wednesday.
Gold, bronze weights, statues and other artifacts from the Egyptian city of Heracleion, lost underwater to history for 1,200 years, will soon go on display, according to an international team of archaeologists.
The city, located near Alexandria at the juncture of the Nile and the Mediterranean, has been called the most important Egyptian port during the reign of the later pharaohs.
Physical evidence of the city, mentioned by ancient Greek historian Herotodus, did not arrive until 2001, when French archaeologist Franck Goddio found Heracleion treasures while searching for Napoleon Bonaparte’s warships from the 1798 Battle of Nile.
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