Overwhelming relics

Overwhelming relics

How old have you ever imagined you were discovering the undersea effects? Like what archeology is discovered under the ground in traces that are also discovered under the sea, it is not only that this is a science in its name which is sunken archeology, and we as a page of Egyptology we got down some pictures of these sunken archeology, so you may come together with some of us know sunken archeology in Egypt How was it?

First, this sunken archeology was not limited to a specific era, several ages, from the ancient Egyptian era to the modern era, in 1962 Abu Saadat, a pioneer of diving athletes in Alexandria, persuaded the Egyptian Navy to remove a huge statue of a Ptolemaic queen in the shape of Isis from the archaeological site near the Qaitbay Citadel .

As a result of the urgency of this pioneer, who was the first to realize the importance of the underwater archaeological heritage, Egypt submitted a request to UNESCO to study the site, and in 1968 the British archaeologist Honor Forest and Mr. Abu Kamel Al-Saadat presented a preliminary study of the underwater archaeological heritage of Alexandria Port.

The marine field was under the supervision of the military and in the eighties the responsibility of the underwater archaeological heritage was assigned to the Ministry of Culture thanks to the insistence of the head of Egyptian antiquities Dr. Ahmed Kadry. Since then you are the Egyptian Antiquities Authority and then the Supreme Council of Egyptian Antiquities to manage and implement business in Egypt, and for example oversees The work of the French and Greek missions in Alexandria or the American in the Red Sea in close cooperation, and in 1997 established a special department for antiquities under the sea.

In April 1986, Ahmed Qadry, President of the Egyptian Antiquities Authority, and Mr. Marcel Poitou, President of France Electricity Company, signed a scientific and technical cooperation agreement, according to which a factory will be established in Kom El Dekka in the heart of Alexandria to restore and preserve the artifacts that were found under the sea, according to the chemical electrochemical techniques. ".