Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each site: still a port or killed by sediment?
Groups: Killed by sediment · Still a port
- Ostia
- Ephesus
- Alexandria
- Marseille
- Bruges
- Istanbul
Hints
- Ask what a river deposits at its mouth over centuries.
- Some ancient harbours now sit kilometres from the sea.
Show the answer
Killed by sediment: Ephesus, Bruges, Ostia
Still a port: Marseille, Alexandria, Istanbul
Why
Three great ports that ended not through conquest but through silt. Nobody sacked Ephesus into being 5 km inland, the river simply kept arriving.
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