Archaeological find in Abu Quir

Joint Egypt-France expedition that excavates for monuments in Abu Quir bay recovered monuments from the underwater of the bay that includes plates, coins, pottery statues of the Ptolemaic, Byzantine, Islamic and late Pharaonic eras.

Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni said the plate was believed to be of gold and dated back to the Ptolemaic era.

Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities SCA, Zahi Hawas said the expedition retrieved also a set of pottery with magnificent shapes of the Ptolemaic age.

Hawas added that a marble block was salvaged that has the story of the death of a young man who had been killed during a battle inscribed.

The marble drawn is expected to lead to unearth the graveyard of the young man's village of Asty near the old city of Canopus.

Director General of Alexandria Sunken Monuments Department, Ibrahim Darwish said the find highlights the significance of the sunken monuments in Alexandria that a number of statues of kings, Queens, and gods of different ages including the late Pharaonic age.