After over a thousand years underwater, two Egyptian cities will be exhibited at British Museum

2015-12-09T03:58:00-05:00

The [British] museum announced a six-month show that will tell the remarkable story of two lost cities at the mouth of the Nile – Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus – which by the 8th-century AD had been swallowed completely by the sea. [...] the loans will range from the enormous, a 5.4-metre-high granite statue of the Nile flood god Hapi, to the domestic. [...] It represents Egypt’s first major loan of antiquities since the country’s revolution in 2011...

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After over a thousand years underwater, two Egyptian cities will be exhibited at British Museum