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Blue and white porcelain of Franck Goodio's donation to the Guimet Museum are part of the museum's new special exhibition
Porcelain and a 3D installation present maritime trade between China and Europe during the 16th-17th century
The Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet in Paris is currently displaying “Un firmament de porcelaines De la Chine à l’Europe” (A porcelain firmament from China to Europe). The exhibition presents a unique 3D installation of the spectacular 300 blue and white porcelains ornament at the…
Public Lecture at the Minneapolis Institute of Art
Damian Robinson: The Sunken Cities and Shipwrecks of Ancient Egypt’s Alexandrian Coast
Damian Robinson, director of the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology, will talk about the Sunken Cities and Shipwrecks of Ancient Egypt’s Alexandrian Coast this Thursday, 14 March, at 11am at the Pillsbury Auditorium.
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TV documentary on Thonis-Heracleion
Available online until Friday
The documentary "Ägyptens versunkene Hafenstadt/Cités engloutis – Thônis-Héracléion en Egypt" will re-air on arte 9 December at 12.20h (Germany) and 15.50h (France).
The documentary is also available onlinewith English subtitles until 7 December:
Exhibition opening in Minneapolis
Minneapolis Institute of Art to host Egypt's Sunken Cities
This fall, the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) will host the Sunken Cities exhibition. The exhibition opens November 4, 2018, and is on view for an extended six-month run through April 14, 2019. It was recently shown at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, the British Museum in London, the…
Egypt expedition
Soon, we are about to leave for Egypt again
Soon, we are about to leave for Egypt again, in order to resume our research in Aboukir Bay and in Alexandria.
During the fall 2017 mission led by the IEASM, in collaboration with the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities and with the support of the Hilti Foundation, we continued our geophysical surveys…
Behind the scenes look
Installation of Sunken Cities at the Saint Louis Art Museum
Exhibition opens this Sunday
New publication by the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology
Theological defences in ancient Egypt
Oxford University’s Centre for Maritime Archaeology (OCMA) has published a new book on Thonis-Heracleion and the archaeology in the Canopic region in Egypt. The volume Theological defences of the Canopic Gate in the Saïte Period, by Anne-Sophie von Bomhard, investigates a temple at the sunken city…
TV documentary
26 December on Arte
The TV documentary "Cités engloutis/Ägyptens versunkene Hafenstadt" will air again on Arte 26 December 2017, at 6.50pm (in France) and at 9am (in Germany).
It shows the rediscovery of the ancient city of Thonis-Heracleion that submerged more than a 1,000 years ago.
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