Sunken Cities (Hardback) : Egypt Meets Greece - Egypt's Lost Worlds

Informationen zum Autor Franck Goddio is founder of the French IEASM (European Institute for Underwater Archaeology) and discoverer of the city of Herakleion–Thonis 7 km off the Egyptian shore in Aboukir Bay. He also led the excavation of the submerged site of Eastern Canopus and of Antirhodos in the ancient harbour of Alexandria (Portus Magnus). Aurelia Masson-Berghoff is Project Curator, British Museum, Department: Greece and Rome. Klappentext A fascinating showcase of some of the ancient world's richest archaeological finds in recent years Zusammenfassung Beneath the waters of Abukir Bay, lie the submerged remains of the ancient Egyptian cities Canopus and Thonis-Heracleion, which sank over 1,000 years ago but were brought to the surface by in the 1990s. These ancient artefacts are to be exhibited in Britain in 2016. This book tells the story of these two ancient civilizations. Inhaltsverzeichnis . Director's foreword . Sponsor's foreword . Foreword from the Hilti Foundation . 1. Rediscovering Thonis- Heracleion and Canopus . 2. Egypt and Greece: early encounters . 3. Greek kings and Egyptian gods . 4. From myth to festivals . 5. Egypt and Rome

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• Authors: Franck Goddio, Goddio Franck, Aurelia Masson-Berghoff, Aurélia Masson-Berghoff
• Assisted by: Franck Goddio (Editor), Aurelia Masson-Berghoff (Editor), Aurélia Masson-Berghoff (Editor)
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.05.2016
• EAN: 9780500051856
• ISBN: 978-0-500-05185-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 260 mm x 290 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 1920 g
• Series: British Museum; British Museum
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt, HISTORY / Africa / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Ancient History, African History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Egypt, BCE to c 500 CE, Underwater Archaeology, BCE period – Protohistory, Egyptian Archaeology / Egyptology, African history: pre-colonial period