Egypt
- Exhibition: Cleopatra At The Franklin Institute
Delco News Network (Christina Perryman) After Egypt fell to Rome in 30 B.C. and Cleopatra famously took her own life following the suicide of Mark Antony, the new Roman rulers did their best to wipe Cleopatra and her legacy from Egyptian history. Historians...
- In The Field - Digging In The Nile
Heritage Key (Paula Veiga) I suppose that I can get away with describing underwater excavations as field work :-) Video and accompanying article about the excavations taking place in the Nile itself at Aswan. The video concentrates on items being brought...
- The Latest Underwater Discoveries
Archaeology Magazine This is a global look at underwater archaeology but it includes a page entitled "Min of the Desert" (Red Sea, Egypt) re a reconstruction of a ship from the time of Hapshepsut. In recent years, for-profit underwater salvors have captured...
- Cool View
Al-Ahram WeeklyTWO MONTHS after UNESCO agreed on a design proposed by French architect Jacques Rougerie for the first underwater museum of Egyptian antiquities on the Mediterranean coast in Alexandria, a mission from the European Institute for Underwater...
- Underwater Museum
A new proposed museum for Alexandria will be both underwater and above as well. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080916-underwater-museum.html...
Egypt
Hawass: Underwater Treasures of Egypt in Paris
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/829/hr2.htm
"The problem with underwater archaeology is that the artefacts are encased with salt which takes a long time to clean off. When I became the secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), I decided to leave these artefacts in situ, since many objects had been lifted off the sea bed and I thought we should leave the rest to the possible underwater museum, the only archaeological underwater museum in the world."
The rest of the article describes mainly Hawass's perception of the inauguration ceremonies in Berlin and Paris .
- Exhibition: Cleopatra At The Franklin Institute
Delco News Network (Christina Perryman) After Egypt fell to Rome in 30 B.C. and Cleopatra famously took her own life following the suicide of Mark Antony, the new Roman rulers did their best to wipe Cleopatra and her legacy from Egyptian history. Historians...
- In The Field - Digging In The Nile
Heritage Key (Paula Veiga) I suppose that I can get away with describing underwater excavations as field work :-) Video and accompanying article about the excavations taking place in the Nile itself at Aswan. The video concentrates on items being brought...
- The Latest Underwater Discoveries
Archaeology Magazine This is a global look at underwater archaeology but it includes a page entitled "Min of the Desert" (Red Sea, Egypt) re a reconstruction of a ship from the time of Hapshepsut. In recent years, for-profit underwater salvors have captured...
- Cool View
Al-Ahram WeeklyTWO MONTHS after UNESCO agreed on a design proposed by French architect Jacques Rougerie for the first underwater museum of Egyptian antiquities on the Mediterranean coast in Alexandria, a mission from the European Institute for Underwater...
- Underwater Museum
A new proposed museum for Alexandria will be both underwater and above as well. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080916-underwater-museum.html...