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Submerged Royal Quarters Surveys and Excavations 1992-1997 Institute European d' Archeologie Sous-Marine (IEASM) Support from the Hilti Foundation Recant announcements (October, 1998) of archaeological marine research in the Alexandria Eastern Harbor confirm the location of the "Royal Quarter" of Alexandria, with the discovery of "Cleopatra's Palace". This reinforces the assumption that the Ancient library of Alexandria was also built in the same area, and that this heritage also belongs to the new Bibliotheca Alexandrina building which is located across the corniche waterfront avenue, the northern border of the new library, from where the submerged remains have been discovered:

The discovered submerged lands in the East Harbor of Alexandria. In black are the present structures and the modern city of Alexandria; in color are the discovered submerged structures and lands in the harbor and in the sea. The Antirhodos Island, property of the Kings, can be seen in the center.

On the Antirhodos Island, Franck Goddio looks at a superb sphinx whose face is a portrait of the King Ptolemy XII, father of Cleopatra.

Franck Goddio, Georges Brocco, Patrice Sandrin and Eric Smith, diver are controlling the descent of the sphinx with the head of Ptolemy XII raised from the submerged Island of Antirhodos

The statue of the Great Priest of Isis has been raised from the place where it had fallen more than sixteen centuries ago. The statue is probably part of a sanctuary of the god Isis on Antirhodos Island.