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16 rare artifacts fished out in Alexandria
Egypt, Local, 11/9/2002
The French mission of the European maritime antiquities institute managed to salvage 16 archaeological pieces that were sunk in the Eastern Port area in Alexandria.
The artifacts include a collection of range granite stones, capitals of columns with reliefs dating back to the era of an ancient Roman Emperor, part of the falcon-headed statue of Horus, a 1.6-metre-long white marble statue of a headless man, a black granite masterpiece of a coiled snake and four pieces of rosy granite with hieroglyphic inscriptions that date back to the 26th Dynasty.
Zahi Hawas, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), said he approved salvaging these artifacts and moved them to the restoration laboratories and the Roman amphitheatre to remove saline off them and copy the inscriptions for study purposes.
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