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The Graeco-Roman Museum of Alexandria

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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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