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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNAncient Statues Emerge From the Waters Off Egypt’s Coast, Where They’d Been Hiding for Thousands of Years
Several large sculptures were among the trove of artifacts that divers recovered from the waters near Alexandria, Egypt.
Egyptian authorities recently began lifting remnants of a 2,000-year-old submerged city from the seabed of Abu Qir Bay near ...
Strong earthquakes and rising seas submerged the city about 1,200 years ago, recalled La Croix. Those same forces also ...
A Scottish schoolboy made quite the discovery in 1952 when he was digging up potatoes and instead found an ancient Egyptian statue in the ground. Now, decades later, experts are putting forward ...
Ancient statues, Roman coins and other artifacts from a sunken city were pulled from the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of ...
Archaeologists have discovered broken pharaoh-sphinx statues at an ancient Egyptian sun temple.
A couple in Sudbury, Suffolk, England recently sold a pair of weathered garden statues, which turned out to be ancient Egyptian relics.
Egyptian archaeologists located a lost 3,500-year-old cemetery containing mummies and statues—among other discoveries. They found a “Book of the Dead” papyrus scroll measuring over 43 feet long—a rare ...
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Ancient artifacts of sunken city likely destroyed by earthquake or tsunami plucked from seafloor
Ancient 2,000-year-old artifacts were recovered from the Mediterranean Sea near Alexandria, Egypt, possibly from the sunken ...
A Scottish schoolboy initially mistook an ancient Egyptian sculpture for a potato. His find would lead to many others, thousands of miles from Egypt.
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