Posted on 05/13/2006 6:30:52 AM PDT by aculeus
Treasure hunter Franck Goddio has spent years bringing the sunken city of Alexandria to the surface. The results of his labors, now premiering in Berlin, reveal incest, fratricide and iniquity. And breathtaking beauty.
It's a good thing that the Martin Gropius Building has such high ceilings. It'll need them. The exhibit at the Berlin museum includes 15-ton statues sculpted from rose-colored granite that have spent millennia on the ocean floor.
The pieces that will be on display in the exhibit entitled "Egypt's Sunken Treasure," opening to the public on May 13, but ceremoniously unveiled by German President Horst Köhler and visiting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Thursday, were flown directly to Germany on board a "Beluga" cargo plane provided by Airbus. The aircraft's unusual cargo also includes astronomic calendars, jewels, gold coins, penises made of lead and the spout of a baby's bottle. The statue of Hapi, more than five meters (16.4 feet) tall, is considered the largest freestanding sculpture of an Egyptian god in existence.
(Excerpt) Read more at service.spiegel.de ...
But of course.
That's something you can display with a plomb.
That's something you can display with a plomb.
What a pipe dream!
Human nature hasn't changed.
Never will.
One is often led by it.
Ping
bttt
Wow, I did not know the American Democratic Party had been around that long
one earlier, similar topic, and a related topic:
Cleopatra's gems rise from the deep
London Times | 5/11/06 | Roger Boyes
Posted on 05/11/2006 9:14:37 PM EDT by wagglebee
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1630820/posts
Nile releases city's deep history [ Rhakotis and Alexandria ]
New Scientist | 22 April 2006 | unattributed
Posted on 04/21/2006 11:50:42 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1618937/posts
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Someone should just ask Helen what Cleo really looked like.
Heads up!
Hence, our modern day term, "no lead in his pencil?"
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