How One Wave Erased the Ancient World's Greatest City

On July twenty-first, 365 AD, the strongest earthquake ever recorded in the Mediterranean ripped the seafloor apart near Crete, lifted the entire island nine meters into the air, and sent a wall of water racing across the open sea toward the most important city on Earth. This is the story of the day Alexandria drowned, told from the inside out, from the moment the sea vanished from the harbor to the moment it came back with ships on the rooftops #alexandria #tsunami #365AD 00:00 Intro 02:18 Alexandria At The Height Of Its Power 05:06 The Crete Earthquake Begins 07:30 How The Tsunami Forms And Spreads 09:33 Kourion Buried In A Single Morning 12:30 The Wave Reaches Alexandria 15:25 A Day Of Horror In Egypt 16:46 Survival, Decline, And Religious Upheaval 19:28 Scars Left In Stone, Sediment, And Bone 21:23 What Modern Science Reveals 22:22 Why The Mediterranean Is Still At Risk 24:56 Outro