"It's a photographic exhibition with a difference, for as you walk through the Saqqara Under Sand or Whispers of the Dead you become immersed in the sands, tombs and findings of that ancient site, so much so that you go down history lane while sharing the sweat and toil of archaeologists and workers, who, for 16 years have kept digging and excavating to resolve the mysteries of an area that shelters three millennia of history.
In cooperation with the Cultural Development Fund, the Alexandria Library, the Ars Latina Society and the Louvre Museum's Egyptian Antiquities Department, Saqara Under Sand that was staged in Jan. 2007 at the Alexandria Library and last month at the French Cultural Center, Cairo, is currently on at Prince Taz Palace.
However, due to the significance of the exhibition that showcases the fruit of 16-years' excavations conducted by the Louvre's French archaeological team, Saqara Under Sand is scheduled to tour the US as well as many Arab countries and South America before it will return to center stage at the Louver Museum, Paris.
In sheer pictorial terms, “Saqara Under Sand” highlights breathtaking statues, coffins, murals and mummies in addition to excavation works in which French and Egyptian archaeologists as well as local diggers and technicians participated.
The high resolution shots are magnified and accompanied by French and Arabic illustrations which illuminate visitors on excavations that covered an area of 8,000 cubic meters to unveil treasures belonging to the Old Kingdom, the end of the New Kingdom and the Arab-Coptic era."
In cooperation with the Cultural Development Fund, the Alexandria Library, the Ars Latina Society and the Louvre Museum's Egyptian Antiquities Department, Saqara Under Sand that was staged in Jan. 2007 at the Alexandria Library and last month at the French Cultural Center, Cairo, is currently on at Prince Taz Palace.
However, due to the significance of the exhibition that showcases the fruit of 16-years' excavations conducted by the Louvre's French archaeological team, Saqara Under Sand is scheduled to tour the US as well as many Arab countries and South America before it will return to center stage at the Louver Museum, Paris.
In sheer pictorial terms, “Saqara Under Sand” highlights breathtaking statues, coffins, murals and mummies in addition to excavation works in which French and Egyptian archaeologists as well as local diggers and technicians participated.
The high resolution shots are magnified and accompanied by French and Arabic illustrations which illuminate visitors on excavations that covered an area of 8,000 cubic meters to unveil treasures belonging to the Old Kingdom, the end of the New Kingdom and the Arab-Coptic era."
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