In one night of thunder, fire and blood, the course of history was altered at the Bay of Aboukir.

In the famous Battle of the Nile, the British, under Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, would utterly destroy Napoleon Bonaparte's fleet as it lay moored at the Bay of Aboukir, stranding the French general in Egypt and laying low his Pharaonic ambitions of ruling the Nile and wresting India from England.

200 years later, the French returned to Aboukir Bay, this time on an archeological mission. Delving beneath the waves they sought the answers to questions two centuries old. The results they brought to the surface have changed our understanding of that fateful night.