Science & Technology, 2nd prize
Christoph Gerigk
Franck Goddio / Hilti Foundation
Franck Goddio / Hilti Foundation
01 May, 2001
Archeologists clean red granite statues of a Ptolemaic queen and Hapi, a divinity of the Nile. Here at the site of the ancient city of Herakleion, in the Mediterranean Sea, archeologists search for antiquities preserved in the deep.
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