Made the exhibition "Egypt's Sunken Treasures", which concluded on March 16, 2007, the French capital Paris, where he received the museum galleries "Grand Palace" (Le Grand Ballet) 732.822 visitors over three months, according to figures released by the organizers of the exhibition.
The exhibition, which opened in early December 2006, in the presence of French President Jacques Chirac and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, has enabled visitors to view nearly 500 artifacts, of antiques and pieces that have been salvaged from the waters of the Mediterranean near the Abu Qir area and the shores of Alexandria , within the excavation, which began in 1996, and by the French mission under the supervision of Frank Guido, the founder of the European Institute for prospecting for Maritime Archaeology.Among the most prominent pieces that attracted the attention of visitors at the exhibition, a statue of "Isis" dating to the third century BC, as well as other antiques found in the water, and belong to different historical eras, Pharaonic, Greek, Roman, Coptic and Islamic.
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