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