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New Podcast Series

Maritime Archaeology

Together with our partner, the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology (OCMA) at the University of Oxford, we have published the new podcast series "Maritime Archaeology: Research from the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology (OCMA)"

In the series we discuss the fascinating discoveries and…

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Greetings from Alexandria, Egypt!

Our current excavation site in the eastern port

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Webinar:

Latest Discoveries in Egypt

As part of the employee events our partner, the Hilti Foundation together with the Hilti Family Trust, invited Franck Goddio to talk about his achievements and discoveries off the coast of Egypt. Franck's presentation gives some pretty interesting new insights and aspects of the team's latest…

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"Egyptian Pharaohs":

Immersive Exhibition in France

Some of the amazing underwater pictures taken during excavations off the coast of Egypt by award winning photographer and IEASM team member Christoph Gerigk are currently presented in the exhibition "Egyptian Pharaohs" at the Atelier des Lumières in Paris. They form part of a fascinating immersive…

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20th anniversary of OCMA

Maritime Archaeology at the University of Oxford

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the co-foundation of the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology (OCMA). We are very happy about this long-term cooperation with the University of Oxford and the Hilti Foundation. With OCMA we succeeded in establishing a specialist research project within the…

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Now open to visitors:

The Graeco-Roman Museum of Alexandria

©Franck Goddio/IEASM

After almost 20 years, the Graeco-Roman Museum of Alexandria is now open again to the public. The IEASM is very happy that a selection of objects recovered during the team's underwater research in Aboukir Bay and the eastern port of Alexandria forms part of the new permanent collection. Visitors…

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Egypt Mission 2023

New finds in Thonis-Heracleion

This year, the team investigated the city's South canal, in to which huge blocks of stone from a great temple collapsed during a cataclysmic event dated to the mid-second century BC. This was the temple to the god Amun, where Pharaohs came to receive from the supreme god of the ancient Egyptian…

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As Time Goes By...

Follow the journey of the colossal queen and king from the excavation to their display in the Grand Egyptian Museum

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Exhibition Pre-opening

Colossal statues now on view at the Grand Egyptian Museum

The two colossal statues of a Ptolemaic queen and king discovered by the IEASM during excavations in the sunken city of Thonis-Heracleion are now on display at the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) near Cairo.

The statue of the king may represent Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who ruled between 277-270 BC. It…

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Live-Stream Session

Latest News From Egypt

Join Franck's live-stream session talking about the team's ongoing research in Thonis-Heracleion, Canopus and Alexandria in Egypt and the latest developments on Tuesday, January 24, 2023, at 2:00 p.m. (GMT+1). The session is organised by our partner, the Hilti Foundation.

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