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On 8 October 2017, TheDailyBerries.com published an article about a purportedly recent discovery of a lost city called Heracleion: Egypt's lost, sunken city of Thonis-Heracleion (dubbed Atlantis by some publications) is thought to have been subsumed by the Mediterranean over time due to soil erosion and rising sea levels, and all but forgotten for several hundred years after that — until its rediscovery in 2000. Since then, it has been discussed, written about, and featured in museum collections. A non sequitur about Garcinia Cambogia, which appears to be a weight-loss pill, suggests that TheDailyBerries.com's purpose is not to share information about this purported lost city, but instead to simply trick people into being exposed to advertisements for a dubious supplement. The claim cites an September 2017 post by Buzznicked.com, which again references a very recent find (also includes a mention of Garcinia Cambogia): Some posts included an image of a diver measuring the leg of a statue, which appears in the July/August 2000 issue of print magazine Ancient Egypt and on the web site of French underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio, who originally rediscovered the sunken city: It is true Thonis-Heracleion was excavated and its submerged ruins uncovered, but was first rediscovered in 2000; the story was repurposed into a clickbait-and-switch in an attempt to sell a questionable weight-loss supplement in 2017.
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