Tag: Goddio

  • The Alexandria International Conference on Maritime and Underwater Archaeology

    The Alexandria International Conference on Maritime and Underwater Archaeology

    Egypt has provided humanity with a majestic concrete civilization that continued for thousands of years since the break of dawn. Historians and archaeologists have been interested in studying this civilization and its endlessly creative, accomplished legacy. Marine archaeology is considered one of the new sciences that studies the Ancient Egyptian Civilization throughout its different ages…

  • The Greeks in Egypt: on Sunken Cities at the British Museum

    The Greeks in Egypt: on Sunken Cities at the British Museum

    Two thousand years ago, Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus, two cities on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, were thriving cultural melting pots. Traders from the Greek world and the Levant flowed into the cities’ ports with goods, ideas and religious beliefs. The Egyptian god Osiris, king of the blessed dead, was celebrated along with the wine-loving Greek god Dionysus,…