Mostafa Waziri, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities headed to California in the US to inaugurate Sunken Archeology Exhibition under the name of “Sunken Cities: The Enchanting World of Egypt” at its third stop in the United States of America on Saturday, October 5, 2019.
It will be held at the Ronald Reagan presidential library and will last until April 2020.
The exhibition includes 293 artifacts that were recovered from the cities of Heraklion and Canoupis in the eastern port of Alexandria and the port of Abi Qir.
Among the most important pieces in the exhibition are huge statues of ISIS, Sphinx, and Serapis as well as some ornaments and household items.
The journey of this exhibition began in 2015; it was displayed at the Arab World Institute in France under the title (Osiris, the secrets of sunken Egypt) and then moved to the British Museum in England to finish its trip in the cities of Europe in Zurich, Switzerland. Then it began a trip to the United States of America in St. Louis, Missouri, then Minneapolis and its third stop in California.
Contributed by Ahmad El-Assasy
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