It’s tempting to think that the submerged cities in Aboukir Bay off the mediterranean coast of Egypt, Menouthis and Heraklion, were named for Menes and Hercules, but Menes wasn’t known as a seafarer during old kingdom times (circa 2100 b. c.) in Egypt, and Hercules of greek legend lived circa 1300 b. c., after the Ice Age had ended, so probably Menouthis was named for the canaanite Mneseas (a son of Posidon/Sidon and grandson of Canaan), and Heraklion for Hercle, the name of the Etruscan sea god, their language said to have been of Pelasgian origin, perhaps therefore Hercle having been another name for Peleg, or maybe one of his sons.
