Much like the mystery of the lost city of Atlantis, the Egyptian Thonis-Heracleion had been lost somewhere between myth, history, legend and reality until its discovery in 2000. Now sunken underwater, the city which occupied the land that is now known as Alexandria was home to some of the most phenomenal ancient Egyptian temples and religious rites. On September 8, French President Francois Holland is scheduled to inaugurate Institut du Monde Arabe’s exposition ‘Osiris, Egypt’s Sunken Mysteries’, which takes the visitors through the “nautical procession of Osiris from Thonis-Heracleion to Canopus that accompanied the god each year on his passage to the hereafter,” as described on the expo’s official website. Between September 8 and January 31, over 290 artifacts will be on display spanning 1100 m2 at the Arab World Institute in Paris. Most of the displayed artifacts were gathered during a recent underwater excavation carried out by the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology (EIUA), directed by Franck Goddio in collaboration with the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities near Abu Qir in Alexandria. To narrate the mysteries of the Ancient Egyptian god Osiris, dozens of artifacts were carefully gathered on loan…
‘Osiris, Egypt’s Sunken Mysteries’ Exposition to be Inaugurated in Paris
September 7, 2015
