Publications

CONTENT

I UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGY
- What is underwater archaeology ?
- Objective: to draw a map of Alexandria
- Underwater archaeology surveying and magnetometry
- Team and Logistics- Material and Equipment
- The excavation plan
- All in a day’s work
- The excavation notebook
- High-tech underwater cartography of the harbour at Alexandria
- Moulding the past
- Underwater photography
- Making documentary films for television
- Restoration and conservation of the archaeological material

II THE PORTUS MAGNUS OF ALEXANDRIA
- The Royal Quarters
- The Ptolemies
- The Island of Antirhodos
- Caracalla, the monster who wanted to be Alexander
- Isis and Osiris
- Cleopata
- The ancient coast line of the Portus Magnus
- Outlines of the past
- The peninsula
- The Timonium
- The Poseidium
- The ports
- The royal ports form the point of view of a 20th century engineer
- The navalia
- The lighthouse

CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY