فرانك جوديو ولد عام 1947 في الدار البيضاءبالمغرب، عالم «آثار ما تحت الماء» إيطالي/فرنسي. في عام 2000 اكتشف ثونيس هرقليون على بعد 7 كم من أبي قيربالأسكندرية.[1]
قاد أعمال التنقيب في موقعي المدينتين الغارقتين كانوبوسوأنتيرودس في موقع الميناء القديم للأسكندرية (Portus Magnus).[2]
كما قام أيضا بالكشف عن سفن غارقة في مياه الفلبين، من أهم تلك الاكتشافات، الغاليون الأسباني سان دييجو.
1997: Junk of the Lena shoal with ceramics of the Ming dynasty
1998–1999: Napoleon's lost fleet from the battle against Admiral Nelson in Aboukir Bay in 1798 and his flagship Orient
2000–2003: the sunken cities of Thônis–مدينة هرقليون and كانوب in Aboukir Bay, Egypt[4]
2002 Junk Santa Cruz with over 10,000 pieces of 15th century porcelain
2003 French slave ship Adelaide, lost in 1714 off the coast of Cuba
2004 – to present: researches and excavations of Egypt's coast in the Bay of Aboukir on the sites of Eastern Canopus and Heracleion–Thônis, finalisation of the topography of the sites, continuating excavation in Alexandria's Eastern Harbour[5]
Sylvie Cauville and Franck Goddio, De la Stèle du Satrape (ligne14-15) au temple de Kom Ombo, in Göttinger Miszellen, Beiträge zur ägyptologischen Diskussion (Helft 253/2017, N° 950), p. 45-54.
Franck Goddio and Aurélia Masson-Berghoff, Sunken cities, Egypt's lost worlds, Thames & Hudson in cooperation with the British Museum, 2016, (ردمك 978-0-500-29237-2)
Franck Goddio and Damian Robinson (Eds.), Thonis-Heracleion in context, Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology, Oxford 2015, (ردمك 978-1-9059-05331)
Franck Goddio u. David Fabre, "Osiris, Egypt's sunken Myteries", Paris 2015, (ردمك 978-2-08137873-5)
Zahi Hawass and Franck Goddio, Cleopatra – The Search for the last Queen of Egypt, National Geographic, Washington D.C. 2010, (ردمك 978-1-4262-0545-3)
Underwater Archaeology in the Canopic Region – The Topography and Excavation of Heracleion–Thonis and East Canopus (1996–2006), Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology, Oxford 2007, (ردمك 978-0-9549627-3-9)
André Bernand and Franck Goddio, Sunken Egypt – Alexandria, Arcperiplus, London 2002, (ردمك 1-902699-51-3)
Peter Lam, Rosemary Scott, Stacey Pierson, Monique Crick, and Franck Goddio, Lost at Sea, Periplus Publishing, London 2002, (ردمك 1-902699-13-0)
Archaeological Survey of Alexandria’s Eastern Harbour. In Underwater Archaeology and Coastal Management, Unesco Publishing 2000
Gabrielle Iltis, Franck Goddio et al., Royal Captain, Periplus Publishing, London 2000, (ردمك 1-902699-19-X)
Stacey Pierson, Monique Crick, and Franck Goddio, Sunken Treasures of the Lena Cargo, Periplus Publishing, London 2000, (ردمك 1-902699-22-X)
Evelyne Jay Guyot de Saint Michel and Franck Goddio, Griffin – On the Route of an Indiaman, Periplus Publishing, London 1999, (ردمك 1-902699-03-3)
André Bernard, Etienne Bernand, Jean Yoyotte, Franck Goddio et al., Alexandria, the Submerged Royal Quarters, Periplus Publishing, London 1998, (ردمك 1-902699-00-9)
