Exhibition of "Egypt's Sunken Treasures" at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

The Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin was the setting for a remarkable exhibition of ancient civilizations from 13 May through 4 September 2006. Around 500 artefacts were on view, most of them never before shown in public. They offered a glimpse at more than 1,500 years of Egyptian history.

450,000 visitors have seen the world premiere of finds from underwater archaeological expeditions off the Egyptian coast during sixteen exhibition weeks. This makes “Egypt’s Sunken Treasures“ one of the most successful exhibitions in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Germany’s president Horst Köhler and the president of the Arabic Republic of Egypt, Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, inaugurated the exhibition on 11 May 2006. Since then thousands of visitors have been coming to see “Egypt’s Sunken Treasures” in Berlin. In the last weeks the number of visitors mounted up to almost 8,000 per day. The next exhibition venue for “Egypt’s Sunken Treasures“ is Paris. It will be on display there in the Grand Palais from 9 December 2006 to 16 March 2007.

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