Egyptian artifacts follow-up

Seven months ago, I posted a bit about Egyptian statues and other relics that have been retrieved from the waters near Alexandria. Many of those objects have since gone on display in Europe. This story came from the wire yesterday:

"Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his French counterpart Jacques Chirac unveiled an exhibition of sunken treasures recovered by French underwater explorers and spanning 1,500 years of Egyptian history.

"The artefacts, dating from 700 BC to 800 AD, were recovered by a team of archaeologists led by the Frenchman Franck Goddio, who have been working on the sea floor off Egypt's coast for the past 10 years.

"They include the largest known statue of Hapy, the Egyptian god of the Nile, a five-metre (11-foot) colossus dating from 2,000 years ago, which forms the centrepiece of the display along with statuettes of deities, coins and everyday objects.

"A total of 8,000 artefacts have been excavated from the Mediterranean depths near the ancient harbour of Alexandria, the nearby site of Canopus, and the lost city of Heraklion some seven kilometres (four miles) offshore."