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18th-Century French Weapons Recovered in Alexandria’s Harbor

Monday, June 23, 2014

 

Alexandria-Napoleon-WeaponsALEXANDRIA, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that a Russian team of researchers has recovered guns, pistols, and cannons from Le Patriot, a ship in Napoleon Bonaparte’s fleet in 1798, from wreckage on the northern side of Pharos Island in the city’s eastern harbor. Mohamed Mostafa, director of Egypt’s underwater archaeology department, said that the artifacts will be restored at the Grand Egyptian Museum.

 

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