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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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A group from the IEASM recently met with colleagues of the Egyptian Department of Underwater Antiquities in order to set up a new warehouse in Alexandria. A huge number of objects, approximately 35,000, had to be moved and arranged anew. Thanks to this cooperative effort there is now much more space…