Egypt
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.
- Diving Off Alexandria
BBC News University of Ulster divers have been passing on their expertise to maritime archaeologists in the historic Egyptian port of Alexandria. Staff from the UU's maritime archaeology centre conducted a 10-day training workshop for 15 archaeologists...
- 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...
- Portico Found In Nile At Aswan
National Geographic (Andrew Bossone) There have been various bits of news trickling out of Egypt about underwater discoveries in the Nile at Aswan. Here's the latest. Archaeologists have discovered a portico, or covered entryway, of an ancient Egyptian...
- Underwater Archaeology In Alexandria
http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7393 "According to Mahrus, neither winter nor summer is the ideal time for underwater excavations. Exceptionally, some have to dive during these seasons for different purposes like testing new equipment...
- 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...
Egypt
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 the public imagination, garnering breathless headlines announcing their recovery of "treasure" ships. But there's much more to the world of nautical exploration than the giddy promise of gold coins. Every field season, underwater archaeologists make extraordinary discoveries that expand our vision of humanity's past.
On the following pages, we highlight just a few of these ongoing underwater archaeology projects, from the recovery of a sixth-century B.C. Phoenician shipwreck, where excavators found a cargo that included elephant tusks and amber, to work on a 19th-century vessel in Oklahoma's Red River that has given archaeologists their first look at early steamship design.
- Diving Off Alexandria
BBC News University of Ulster divers have been passing on their expertise to maritime archaeologists in the historic Egyptian port of Alexandria. Staff from the UU's maritime archaeology centre conducted a 10-day training workshop for 15 archaeologists...
- 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...
- Portico Found In Nile At Aswan
National Geographic (Andrew Bossone) There have been various bits of news trickling out of Egypt about underwater discoveries in the Nile at Aswan. Here's the latest. Archaeologists have discovered a portico, or covered entryway, of an ancient Egyptian...
- Underwater Archaeology In Alexandria
http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7393 "According to Mahrus, neither winter nor summer is the ideal time for underwater excavations. Exceptionally, some have to dive during these seasons for different purposes like testing new equipment...
- 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...