Science & Technology, 2nd prize
Christoph Gerigk
Franck Goddio / Hilti Foundation
Franck Goddio / Hilti Foundation
01 January, 2001
A reassmbled stele from the Ptolemaic Period. Measuring three by six meters together, the fourteen fragments still bear 27 lines of hieroglyphs. 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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