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Exploring the Underwater Ruin of Cleopatra's Palace | Fox News  May 26, 2010 ... Plunging into the waters off Alexandria Tuesday, divers explored the submerged ... They're exploring the submerged ruins of a palace and temple complex from where Queen Cleopatra ruled, ... the team, led by French underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio, to conquer ... Goddio's team found it in 1996.
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Franck Goddio: Projects: Sunken civilizations: Heracleion  ... of Alexandria in 331 BC, the city knew glorious times as the obligatory port of ... directed by Franck Goddio, no trace of Thonis-Heracleion had been found. ... Colossal red granite statue of a Ptolemaic queen, 4.9 m high and weighing 4 tons.
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Sunken treasure - divers recover the stunning artefacts of... - Daily Mail  May 26, 2010 ... Divers in the waters off Alexandria have recovered stunning ... ruins of a palace and temples belonging to Egyptian queen Cleopatra. ... Alexandria's Royal Quarters - ports, a cape and islands full of ... Mr Goddio's team found it in 1996. ... Franck Goddio shows a recently excavated bronze cult statue found...
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Franck Goddio - Wikipedia  Franck Goddio (born 1947 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a French underwater archaeologist who, in 2000, discovered the city of HerakleionThonis 7 km off the Egyptian shore in Aboukir Bay. He led the excavation of the submerged site of Eastern Canopus and of Antirhodos in the ancient harbour of Alexandria (Portus Magnus). .... Zahi Hawass and Franck Goddio, Cleopatra  The Search for the last Queen...
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Franck Goddio - Science - National Geographic  Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt Archaeologist Franck Goddio. ... present to the public the objects that underwater archaeologists discovered there. ... of the Egyptian government, we began work in the ancient port of Alexandria. ... Cleopatra's royal palaces came to life before our eyes, as we developed the...
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Suez Canal - History in the Headlines  Nov 17, 2014 ... ... and Red Seas was officially opened in a lavish ceremony at Egypt's Port Said. ... The Egyptian Pharaoh Senusret III may have built an early canal connecting the ... of Suez and building a canal from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean. ... Planning for the Suez Canal officially began in 1854, when a French...
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What happened to the missing mummies of Egypt's lost queens ...  Sep 4, 2014 ... With her status as queen mother making her 'first lady', at that time of greater ... oils and her vivid green eye makeup, the epitome of style in the Pyramid Age. ... was eventually discovered hidden in a recess in the tomb wall, and when ... the mystery of Hetepheres' missing mummy continues to be the subject...
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Alexandria Egypt - Pharos (Lighthouse) of Alexandria AncientVine ...  Cleopatra, Rome, Alexandria Egypt, Pharos of Alexandria, Lighthouse of ALexandria, ... Much of the city design and construction came under the rule of Ptolemy and his ... The Musaeum at Alexandria (Museum of Alexander) also known as the Library of ... The loss of the library is widely considered a great loss to humanity.
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Did I Find King David's Palace? - Biblical Archaeology Society  May 8, 2016 ... Excavator Eilat Mazar describes finding what she believes to be King ... to the tenth century B.C.E., the time of King David and King Solomon, according to the Bible. ... In the free eBook Jerusalem Archaeology: Exposing the Biblical City, ..... So you decide whether or not we have found King David's palace.
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Alexander Column - Wikipedia  The Alexander Column also known as Alexandrian Column is the focal point of Palace Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The monument was raised after the...
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Alexandria - Wikipedia  Alexandria (/lzndr/ or /lzndr/; Arabic:  al-Iskandariyyah; ... Alexandria is Egypt's largest seaport, serving approximately 80% of Egypt's ... Alexandria was founded around a small Ancient Egyptian town c. .... French troops stormed the city on 2 July 1798, and it remained in their hands...
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egypt2.dat - The Netlib  ... KAFR_EL_ZT ABU_ZAABAL ABU_KIR TALKHA SUEZ ; set port := ABU_KIR ... GHARBIA KAFR_EL_SH DAKAHLIA DAMIETTA SHARKIA ISMAILIA SUEZ...
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Matrouh Alexandria Beheira Kafr El Sheikh Dakahlia Damietta Port ...  ... El Sheikh Dakahlia Damietta Port Said North Sinai Gharbia Monufia Qalyubia Al ... Valley Asyut Red Sea Sohag Qena Luxor Aswan inspired T-Shirts, Posters,...
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J! Archive - Show #1498, aired 1991-02-20  Industrial pollution threatens the remains of this temple built on the Acropolis to ... Harbor named for a man who was Secretary of War while it was being built...
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Alexandria | SILK ROAD - Unesco  The second largest Egyptian city, after Cairo, and one of the largest ports on the ... back to 1,500 BC, and was designed by Alexander's personal architect, Dinocrates. ... The sack of Tyre by Alexander's troops, also in 332 BC, further directed ... affording Alexandria a position of great strategic importance, wielding control...
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The House of Ptolemy: Alexandria Ad Aegyptum -- The City  An aid in the study of the Ptolemaic (Macedonian-based Greek), Roman Imperial ... There is also a History section (French only): Alexandrie par plusieurs .... The fabled lighthouse was underwater, just offshore from the modern city of ... The Decline of the Library and Museum of Alexandria: By Ellen Brundige (10 Dec, 1991).
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The Lisbon earthquake of 1755: the catastrophe and its European ...  May 4, 2009 ... The Quay (Cais das Pedras) near the Royal Palace was engulfed by the ... the main area of the fire; but the rich contents of his home, all destroyed, show the ... on fire, in several places,  and continued burning from one extremity to ... These first reports of the earthquake in Lisbon were followed by several...
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Egypt Gold 1923, AH 1341 Twenty Piastres Coin King Fuad I ...  Egypt Gold 1938, AH 1357 Twenty Piastres Commemorating King Farouk's Wedding Graded ... Minted to commemorate Farouk's wedding to Farida. .... King Farouk's 100 Gold-Piastres Coin [Issued In 1938] | Flickr - Photo Sharing! ..... also be a neat door prize at your next event/fundraiser or used as a silent auction item.
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Sant Jordi Palace - Architecture of the World - WikiArquitectura  Mar 30, 2015 ... The Palau Sant Jordi is an indoor multipurpose venue, built for the Olympic ... The Palau Sant Jordi was the main covered pavilion of the 1992 Summer Olympics, ... from basketball to motocross exhibitions, including sports unusual ... the city fell hands of the military regime which he governed to Spain from...
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03ar's Blog | Just another WordPress.com site | Page 3  Mar 1, 2011 ... But later, once the edge was off, he intended to see her in all her glor y. ..... For five years, Sapphire has been the King of Sari's most treasured concubine. ...... spent in the chamber told her he must have been near death when they ...... British forces stormed and sacked the ancient citadel and fortress of
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Pharos of Alexandria | ancient lighthouse, Alexandria, Egypt ...  Jun 29, 2016 ... The lighthouse stood on the island of Pharos in the harbour of Alexandria and is said to have ... He had been called in by the Egyptian government to map anything of ... in building construction: Greek and Hellenistic cultures.