2,400-Year-Old Baskets Still Filled With Fruit Found in Submerged Egyptian City Researchers excavating the sunken ruins of Thônis-Heracleion have discovered an array of archaeological treasures. (Christoph Gerigk © Franck Goddio / Hilti Foundation) Incredibly, the vessels still contain doum nuts—the fruit of an African palm tree considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians—and grape seeds. “Nothing was disturbed,” marine archaeologist Franck Goddio tells Dalya Alberge of the G