Leukaspis was lost until 1986, when a group of engineers who were building roads in Marina revealed ancient houses and tombs.

Prior to the site's discovery, the port area of the settlement was destroyed to make a man-made lagoon for a resort.

The area of archaeological investigations and conservation work extends about a kilometer along the sea coast and 550 meters inland.

[1] In 2010, the Egyptian government started to open up Leukaspis as an open-air museum in mid-September 2010, with the aim to increase tourism to Marina, and nearby El-Alamein and Taposiris Magna.

In 1995, the Conservation Mission started, headed first by Stanisław Medeksza, and then Rafał Czerner from the Faculty of Architecture of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology.

[clarification needed] Limestone villas and chalets with landscaped greenery characterize this exclusive part of the Middle East.