(August 31, 2016) Fascinating Egyptian archaeological landscapes and new discoveries still unknown to the scientific world and the general public. These are the subject of the shots shown at the “Archaeo Delta” exhibition. Thursday, September 8 (at 6 PM), at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Conference Center (BACC), West Exhibition Hall, at Alexandria in Egypt will be inaugurated the photographic exhibition “Archaeo Delta” curated by two professors of the University of Padua, Michele Asolati and Cristina Mondin. The Centre for Hellenistic Studies – Bibliotheca Alexandrina in collaboration with the Ministry of Antiquities, the Italian Archaeological Mission in Beheria, the Italian Institute of Culture in Cairo – Italian Embassy and the University of Padua have organized the exhibition “Archaeo Delta” with the purpose of documenting investigations in the Nile Delta, not only in Kom al-Ahmer and Kom Wasit, but also in other places of the area and next to the Delta. The archaeological investigations in the area of the Delta, is a recent reality compared to the tradition of the great excavations in the old Pharaonic sites of the Nile Valley. This new frontier in Egyptian archeology is making the news with an almost uncharted territory, that played a vital role in ancient times. Since 2012 in the area is active an Italian-Egyptian Archaeological Mission, joined by the University of Padua since 2014 under the supervision of Prof. Michele Asolati and financed by MAECI and the Department of Cultural Heritage: Archaeology, History of Art, Cinema and Music of the University of Padua. The exhibition will run until September 30 before moving next spring at the Italian Embassy in Cairo and in the autumn of 2017 at Palazzo Liviano in Padua. Sites presented at the exhibition are those of Kom al-Ahmer and Kom Wasit, Beheira, investigated by the University of Padua; Quesna – Sais – Mutubis, Kafr al-Shikh, Durham University – ESS, UK; Tell Timai, Daqahlyia , University of Hawaii, USA; Tell Murra, Sharqyia, Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie, Poland; Athribis, Sohag, Universität Tübingen, Germany and the Ministry of Antiquities; Demeit al-Sebba, Fayoum, University of Salento. (Red)
