Underwater Artworks Rise to the Occasion
Friday April 21, 2006
Egyptian Sculptures Traveling to Europe
By Stan Parchin
Friday, April 21, 2006
Berlin's Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum is the first stop for Egypt's Sunken Treasures (May 13-September 4, 2006). The special exhibition will showcase more than 300 works of art and artifacts resurrected from Alexandria and its Mediterranean Sea environs by French underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio and his team. Since the mid-1990s, Goddio has been exploring parts of Alexandria and the sunken ancient port of Herakleion, presumably submerged by an earthquake a millennium ago. Two massive Ptolemaic statues, each reported to be a startling 19 feet in height and weighing some six tons, are the hallmarks of this exhibition.
The next venue for Egypt's Sunken Treasures is Paris' Grand Palais, starting in November 2006.
The catalogue is published by Prestel Verlag.
By Stan Parchin
Friday, April 21, 2006
Berlin's Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum is the first stop for Egypt's Sunken Treasures (May 13-September 4, 2006). The special exhibition will showcase more than 300 works of art and artifacts resurrected from Alexandria and its Mediterranean Sea environs by French underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio and his team. Since the mid-1990s, Goddio has been exploring parts of Alexandria and the sunken ancient port of Herakleion, presumably submerged by an earthquake a millennium ago. Two massive Ptolemaic statues, each reported to be a startling 19 feet in height and weighing some six tons, are the hallmarks of this exhibition.
The next venue for Egypt's Sunken Treasures is Paris' Grand Palais, starting in November 2006.
The catalogue is published by Prestel Verlag.
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