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Multi-periodSite Name: Naucratis Alternative Name: Naukratis, Ναύκρατις, Piemro, Kom Gieif
Country: Egypt
NOTE: This site is 2.341 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Lower Egypt (North) Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
 Nearest Village: Rashwan
Latitude: 30.900000N  Longitude: 30.616667E
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Naucratis submitted by Flickr : An East Greek Black-Figure White-ground Bowl with Inscription: Sostratos dedicated me to Aphrodite Ca. 620-600 BC Found in the sanctuary of Aphrodite at Naucratis (Egypt). A very rare example of an inscribed piece of pottery. Photographed at the British Museum, London. Image copyright: Ancient and Medieval Art & Numismatics, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their... (Vote or comment on this photo)
A city of Ancient Egypt, on the Canopic branch of the Nile river, 45 miles SE of the open sea and Alexandria. It was the first and, for much of its early history, the only permanent Greek colony in Egypt; acting as a symbiotic nexus for the interchange of Greek and Egyptian art and culture.

The modern site of the city has become an archaeological find of the highest significance and the source of not only many beautiful objects of art now gracing the museums of the world but also an important source of some of the earliest Greek writing in existence, provided by the inscriptions on its pottery.

The sister port of Naucratis was the harbour town of Thonis/Heracleion, which was only discovered in 2000.
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Naucratis submitted by Flickr : Rhyton Ceramics as trading goods, Ionian pottery and faience ware. During the 7th century BC, a flourishing pottery production developed in Ionia, using oriental plant and animal motifs for decoration. Vases was exported from far and wide - to the offshore islands Rhodos to southern Russia, southern Italy and Etruria. The small-scale faience perfume flacons production originated in Egypt, am... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Naucratis submitted by Flickr : Perfume vase in the form of an African Egypt (Naucratis) Archaic period 6th century B.C. Glazed ceramic (faience) Perfume vase in the form of the head of Herakles Rhodes Archaic period about 550 B.C. Ceramic Image copyright: normafincher (Norma Fincher), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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British Museum launches first major exhibition of underwater archaeology by Andy B on Monday, 16 May 2016
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Sunken cities: Egypt’s lost worlds
Opens 19 May 2016
Organised with Hilti Foundation and the Institut Européen d’Archéologie Sous-Marine.
In collaboration with the Ministry of Antiquities of the Arab Republic of Egypt.

The British Museum is to stage a major exhibition on two lost Egyptian cities and their recent rediscovery by archaeologists beneath the Mediterranean seabed. Opening in May 2016 for an extended run of six months, Sunken cities: Egypt’s lost worlds will be the Museum’s first large-scale exhibition of underwater discoveries. It will show how the exploration of Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus – submerged at the mouth of the River Nile for over a thousand years – is transforming our understanding of the relationship between ancient Egypt and the Greek world and the great importance of these ancient cities.

300 outstanding objects will be brought together for the exhibition including more than 200 spectacular finds excavated off the coast of Egypt near Alexandria between 1996 and 2012. Important loans from Egyptian museums rarely seen before outside Egypt (and the first such loans since the Egyptian revolution) will be supplemented with objects from various sites across the Delta drawn from the British Museum’s collection; most notably from Naukratis – a sister harbour town to Thonis- Heracleion and the first Greek settlement in Egypt.

Likely founded during the 7th century BC, Thonis- Heracleion and Canopus were busy, cosmopolitan cities that once sat on adjacent islands at the edge of the fertile lands of the Egyptian Delta, intersected by canals. After Alexander the Great’s conquest of Egypt in 332BC, centuries of Greek (Ptolemaic) rule followed. The exhibition will reveal how cross-cultural exchange and religion flourished, particularly the worship of the Egyptian god of the afterlife, Osiris.

By the 8th century AD, the sea had reclaimed the cities and they lay hidden several metres beneath the seabed, their location and condition unclear. Although well-known from Egyptian decrees and Greek mythology and historians, past attempts to locate them were either fruitless or very partial. The exhibition will show how a pioneering European team led by Franck Goddio in collaboration with the Egyptian Ministry of Press Release British Museum launches first major exhibition of underwater archaeology The BP exhibition Sunken cities Egypt’s lost worlds Opens 19 May 2016 Supported by BP Organised with Hilti Foundation and the Institut Européen d’Archéologie Sous-Marine. In collaboration with the Ministry of Antiquities of the Arab Republic of Egypt. Embargoed until 09.00, 30 November 2015 Antiquities made use of the most.

Thanks to the underwater setting, a vast number of objects of great archaeological significance have been astonishingly well preserved. Pristine monumental statues, fine metalware and gold jewellery will reveal how Greece and Egypt interacted in the late first millennium BC. These artefacts offer a new insight into the quality and unique character of the art of this period and show how the Greek kings and queens who ruled Egypt for 300 years adopted and adapted Egyptian beliefs and rituals to legitimise their reign.

The exhibition will feature a number of extraordinary, monumental sculptures. A 5.4m granite statue of Hapy, a divine personification of the Nile’s flood, will greet visitors as they enter the space. Masterpieces from Egyptian museums such as the Apis bull from the Serapeum in Alexandria will be shown alongside magnificent recent finds from the sea. One such piece is the stunning sculpture from Canopus representing Arsinoe II (the eldest daughter of Ptolemy I, founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty). The Greco-Macedonian queen became a goddess beloved to both Egyptia

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Drowned worlds: Egypt's lost cities by Andy B on Monday, 16 May 2016
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As a major new exhibition opens at the British Museum, Charlotte Higgins from The Guardian travelled to the Nile Delta to meet the archaeologists uncovering the spellbinding secrets of ancient Naukratis

Near the tiny farming villages of Rashwan and Abu Mishfa in the Nile Delta – the kind of villages where you might see a girl tugging on the harness of a recalcitrant water buffalo as she leads it out to graze, or a mule-drawn cart loaded with animal feed – is a scrappy lake, the haunt of innumerable egrets. Under this lake, and surrounding fields and houses, lie the remains of Naukratis, a city established by Greeks as a trading port in around 620BC. It is here that a British Museum excavation is under way, and some of the archaeologists’ most intriguing discoveries in the city – which you might think of as a kind of Hong Kong of the ancient world – are about to form part of a major exhibition.

It takes an effort of imagination to conjure this place back to its ancient flourishing before its abandonment in the seventh century. But once it was a city with perhaps 16,000 inhabitants, full of temples to gods such as Hera, Aphrodite and the Dioskouroi (Castor and Pollux), and dominated by a vast sanctuary dedicated to the Egyptian deity Amun-Ra, from which a sphinx-lined avenue led to the Canopic branch of the Nile, which long ago flowed here.

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http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/may/15/drowned-worlds-egypts-sunken-cities
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