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Ancient 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.

Ancient treasures & statues lifted out of sea as sunken Egyptian city discovered after 2,000 YEARS

REMNANTS of a 2,000-year-old city submerged under the sea have been discovered. The recent discoveries, made off the coast of ...

Secrets of ancient city revealed as artefacts recovered from seabed

The artefacts recovered from the Mediterranean Sea build on what we already know about the ancient city of Canopus ...
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2,000-Year-Old Statues Resurface From Sunken City Off Alexandria, Egypt

Archaeologists recover ancient statues from underwater ruins near Alexandria, Egypt, shedding light on Ptolemaic and ...
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Why Are Most Ancient Roman Statues Headless?

Ancient Roman statues were often designed to accommodate interchangeable heads so that they could depict different individuals.
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Divers Pulled a Sphinx and Roman Coins From a 2,000-Year-Old Sunken City in Egypt

Off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, cranes lifted statues, coins, and stone anchors from the Mediterranean. Divers cheered from the water’s edge as fragments of temples, harbor docks, and a sphinx ...
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Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the same, either.
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Türkiye uses nanotech to restore Mount Nemrut’s ancient statues

Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy announced that the ancient legacy of Mount Nemrut is being preserved for ...
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Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study ...

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the same, either.