2,000-year-old shipwreck may be Egyptian 'pleasure barge' from last dynasty of pharaohs
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Archaeologists diving off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, have discovered the remains of a 2,000-year-old "pleasure barge" from the time of the Ptolemaic period.
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