Underwater museum
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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




- 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...

- Unesco Backs Plan To Build Underwater Museum In Alexandria
Xinhuanet The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced Thursday that it would help Egypt build an underwater museum in the Bay of Alexandria on the Mediterranean. The idea for a museum, located by Cleopatra's Palace...

- 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...

- 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...

- 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...



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