Egypt
UNESCO has agreed to back the idea of an Underwater museum to showcase all the monuments still lying on the bottom of the harbour at Alexandria.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/05/content_9800051.htm
- 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...
- 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...
- Underwater Museum For Alexandria?
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/803/hr1.htm"Setting up an offshore, submarine archaeological site anywhere is not an easy task, let alone in a city with the water pollution problems of Alexandria. Yet the remarkable discoveries made by underwater archaeologists...
- Ptolomies Through Plexiglass
Here is another article on the proposed underwater museum for Alexandria. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/915/heritage.htm...
- 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
Underwater Alexandria
UNESCO has agreed to back the idea of an Underwater museum to showcase all the monuments still lying on the bottom of the harbour at Alexandria.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/05/content_9800051.htm
- 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...
- 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...
- Underwater Museum For Alexandria?
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/803/hr1.htm"Setting up an offshore, submarine archaeological site anywhere is not an easy task, let alone in a city with the water pollution problems of Alexandria. Yet the remarkable discoveries made by underwater archaeologists...
- Ptolomies Through Plexiglass
Here is another article on the proposed underwater museum for Alexandria. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/915/heritage.htm...
- 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...