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Thonis-Heracleion: A Port at the Edge of the Great Green Sea

The Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies, in collaboration with the University of Oxford, organizes the lecture "Thonis-Heracleion: A Port at the Edge of the Great Green Sea" by Dr. Damian Robinson, Director of the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK on Thursday, 3 ...

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The BA Launches “Alexandria World Heritage Simulation”

The Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies, in collaboration with the Raquda Foundation for Art and Heritage, launches the "Alexandria World Heritage Simulation" initiative on Thursday, 1 August 2019, at 6:00 pm, in the BACC Lectures Hall. The initiative aims at teaching young people the ...

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Book Launch of Unearthing Alexandria’s Archaeology: the Italian Contribution

The Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies in the BA, together with Archaeopress, launched an English book entitled Unearthing Alexandria’s Archaeology: the Italian Contribution , by Mohamed Kenawi and Giorgia Marchiori. The book documents the works of the earliest Italian archaeological ...

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Greek TV Station at the BA

A delegation from the Greek TV station Alpha TV visited the BA and conducted an interview with Dr. Sahar Hamouda, Director of the Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies, and Dr. Mohamed Awad, Adviser to the Director of the BA. The program filmed several touristic and cultural locations in ...

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Lecture on The Reception of Hellenistic Knowledge in Classical Islam

Within the Alexandria Project, the BA holds a lecture on Wednesday, 20 March 2013, entitled “From Alexandria to Baghdad: The Reception of Hellenistic Knowledge in Classical Islam” by Professor Emeritus Hinrich Biesterfeldt. With the beginning of the Arab Dynasty of the Abbasids and the foundation ...

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