2000-year-old shipwreck may be Egyptian 'pleasure barge' from last dynasty of pharaohs

2000-year-old shipwreck may be Egyptian 'pleasure barge' from last dynasty of pharaohs

A diver with one of the timbers from the newfound wreck. The plank is scrawled with unreadable graffiti in Greek letters that have been dated to the first half of the first century.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.While diving off the coast of Egypt, underwater archaeologists found the 2,000-year-old remains of a boat t…