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Athens News Agency: News in English, 10-10-13
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[01] Creation of National Marine Antiquities Museum planned
[01] Creation of National Marine Antiquities Museum planned
Substantial underwater antiquities and other finds brought to light in
the Aegean in exploration that is continuing full swing despite the
economic crisis will be housed in a new National Marine Archaeology
Museum after suitable premises are found, according to the Ephorate of
Underwater Antiquities.
The creation of such a museum was recently approved after pending for
34 years, and the search is on for a suitable space to house it in the
area of Piraeus or nearby Faliron, Department of Underwater Archaeology
director Dr. Angeliki Simosi told ANA-MPA.
The department was set up after explorations conducted by the late
French explorer and oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau in the Aegean,
and archaeologists and researchers have since then brought to the
surface significant artifacts of the country's "submerged history".
Among the finds are a quantity of 18th century BC gold coins discovered
in 2007 off the port of the island of Rhodes, a Classical Era shipwreck
off Peristera, Alonissos Island, indicating that ships above 100 tons
were being built in antiquity, a 1st century BC statue discovered off
Kalymnos island and, more recently, two more shipwrecks off Agaloudes,
on Oinousses island.
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