Diving on the location of Cleopatra's Private Island this October and November as part of the team of Underwater Archaeologist Franck Goddio provided amazing results, as always.
"The most well-known of these pleasure barges were the gigantic floating palaces of the Ptolemies; including Cleopatra VII’s which she used to show Julius Caesar the sights of Egypt in the spring of 47 BC."
The ancient author Strabo, who visited Alexandria around 29-25 BC, described the type of ship and how it was used: “…they hold feasts in cabin-boats (thalamagoi), in which they enter the thick of the cyami and the shade of the leaves." (Geography XVII.1.15)
Lots of News outlets have picked up the preliminary results of this years excavations on the shipwreck we call K1, including:
The Guardian "An ancient Egyptian pleasure boat... has been discovered off the coast of Alexandria, to the excitement of archaeologists".
Newsweek
BBC
MSN
DIvernet
Artnet
"The most well-known of these pleasure barges were the gigantic floating palaces of the Ptolemies; including Cleopatra VII’s which she used to show Julius Caesar the sights of Egypt in the spring of 47 BC."
The ancient author Strabo, who visited Alexandria around 29-25 BC, described the type of ship and how it was used: “…they hold feasts in cabin-boats (thalamagoi), in which they enter the thick of the cyami and the shade of the leaves." (Geography XVII.1.15)
Lots of News outlets have picked up the preliminary results of this years excavations on the shipwreck we call K1, including:
The Guardian "An ancient Egyptian pleasure boat... has been discovered off the coast of Alexandria, to the excitement of archaeologists".
Newsweek
BBC
MSN
DIvernet
Artnet
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