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Excavations are revealing history from the late Pharaonic period onwards.
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Egypt
Excavations at Nelson Island
Egypt Daily Star News
Excavations are revealing history from the late Pharaonic period onwards.
Underwater archaeologists are recovering more monuments and artifacts from the Nelson Island, located off Abu Qir bay in Alexandria, according to Alaa Mahrous, director of the underwater archaeology department in Alexandria.
Excavations on the small island have been in full swing ever since they were initiated by an Italian team that belongs to the University of Torino in the late 1990s, Mahrous said.
The island was known in ancient chronicles as the Canope Island because it faced what was once the Canope estuary of the Nile — where an important port was built.
- The Ptolemies Through Plexi-glass
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine el-Aref) On the seabed of Alexandria's Eastern Harbour lie the royal quarters of the Ptolemaic dynasty complete with temples, palaces and streets. Queen Cleopatra's Palace and Antirhodos Island, now near the centre of...
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Qasr Ibrim (Per-Mit/Premis) is the only site above water level that actually remains in its original location. It was fomerly located on a tall headland, which now forms a small island (it takes quite a leap of the imagination to visualize the island...
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http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/4/ "The Ministry of Culture has completed a comprehensive project to convert the island of Kalabsha in Aswan into an open museum that exhibits monuments of ancient Egyptian civilisation. The project is an asset to...
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