Franck goddio biography

French underwater archaeologist (born 1947)

Franck Goddio (born 1947 in Port, Morocco) is a French sunken archaeologist who, in 2000, ascertained the city of Thonis-Heracleion^[1] 7 km (4.3 mi) off the Egyptian get in Aboukir Bay.^[2] He untidy the excavation of the subsurface site of Canopus^[3] and liberation the ancient harbour of Town (Portus Magnus), including Antirhodos Island.^[4][5] He has also excavated ships in the waters of influence Philippines, significantly the Spanish galleonSan Diego.^[6]

Biography

Goddio received degrees in arithmetic and statistics from the École Nationale de la Statistique make a fuss over de l'Administration Économique in Town.

He was employed as intimation advisor to national and worldwide organizations and various governments shelter over 15 years.

In rectitude early 1980s, he decided come to focus on underwater archaeology. Skull 1987, he founded the Institut Européen d'Archéologie Sous-Marine (IEASM)^[7] surprise Paris.

In his work be sure about detecting and recovering ancient shipwrecks and searching for the cadaver of sunken cities, Goddio dash a systematic approach to subaquatic archaeology.^[8] He has found sort out excavated over a dozen hollow ships of historic importance, which had been resting on character ocean bed for hundreds cut into years.

Among them are junks dating from the 11th be in breach of the 15th centuries, the Nation galleon San Diego^[9] and San José (1694), Napoleon Bonaparte's flagship Orient and two East Indiamen: Griffin (1761) and Royal Captain, lost in 1773.

Goddio adheres to strict archaeological standards^[10] at near the exploration and excavation phases, and closely cooperates with genetic and local authorities, leading archeologic experts and institutions.

In 2003, in co-operation with Oxford College, he helped to found blue blood the gentry Oxford Centre for Maritime Archeology (OCMA).^[11] In 2009, he was appointed a senior visiting professor in the School of Archeology at Oxford University. In magnanimity same year, he received honesty French Legion of Honour (Légion d'Honneur).

In 2018, he became visiting professor in maritime archeology at Oxford University.

Goddio's digging projects have been financed by means of the Hilti Foundation since 1996. He has written several books and scientific articles, reporting distress research projects and excavations.^[12] Distinct TV documentaries have also antediluvian produced and aired throughout righteousness world.

In addition, various exhibitions^[13] have presented the finds current made them accessible to neat wide audience. The discovery selected a cup inscribed with trim reference (in Greek) to "Christ",^[14] dating from the 2nd c CE, received international publicity.^[15]

Expeditions

• 1986–1988: Griffin (1761) of the British Puff up India Company
• 1987–1990: Spanish galleonSan José (1694)
• 1990–1994: Spanish galleon San Diego (1600)
• 1996–2003: sunken royal quarters waste Alexandria's eastern harbour, Egypt
• 1997: Royal Captain of the British Eastside India Company^[16]
• 1997: junk of glory Lena shoal with ceramics wear out the Ming dynasty
• 1998–1999: Napoleon's mislaid fleet from the battle conflicting Admiral Nelson in Aboukir Bawl in 1798 and his flagship Orient
• 2000–2003: the sunken cities be unable to find Thônis–Heracleion and Canopus in Aboukir Bay, Egypt^[17]
• 2002: junk Santa Cruz with over 10,000 pieces carry-on 15th-century porcelain
• 2003: French slave treatment Adelaide, lost in 1714 divide up the coast of Cuba
• 2004–present: researches and excavations of Egypt's slide in the Bay of Aboukir on the sites of Supergiant and Thonis-Heracleion, finalisation of excellence topography of the sites, enduring excavation in Alexandria's Eastern Harbour^[18]

Exhibitions (selection)

Objects found during excavations certain by Goddio have enriched class national collection of countries at the excavations took place: nobility National Museum of the State, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Giza, the Museum loosen the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Graeco-Roman Museum of Alexandria and honourableness National Museum of Alexandria.

Entertain accordance with the antiquities ability in the Philippines, objects get round Goddio's excavations were donated regard the Museo Naval de Madrid, Guimet Museum (Musée des art school asiatiques-Guimet, France) and the Oceanic Museum in Port Louis.

Goddio has also created travelling exhibitions to bring his discoveries ascend wide audiences:

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Egypt's Drawn Mysteries^[19] The exhibition presents artefacts drawn largely from the determined seven years of underwater operation at the ancient cities reminiscent of Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus off magnanimity coast of Egypt by honourableness European Institute for Underwater Archeology (IEASM), directed by Franck Goddio in cooperation with the Afroasiatic Ministry for Antiquities and wiry by the Hilti Foundation.

Say publicly selection is supplemented by 40 artefacts from museums in Port and Alexandria. Displayed in Town at the institut du monde arabe, Sept 2015 – Hike 2016; in London at primacy British Museum in a to a certain different version under the name "Sunken cities. Egypt's lost worlds" May – November 2016, satisfaction Zurich at the Museum Rietberg, February – July 2017; prickly Saint Louis (MO, US) go back the St Louis Arts Museum March–September 2018^[20] and in Metropolis (MN, US) at the City Institute of Art, November 2018 – April 2019.^[21] In Los Angeles/Simi Valley at the Ronald President Presidential Library and Museum, Oct 2019 - April 2020 brook in Richmond ^[22] at nobleness Virginia Museum of Fine Discipline, Richmond (VA), July 2020 - January 2021.

Egypt's Sunken Treasures:^[23] A selection of some Cardinal artefacts unearthed during the mode of operation in Aboukir Bay and integrity port of Alexandria. Presented injure Berlin (April – September 2006), Paris (December 2006 – Stride 2007), Bonn (April 2007 – January 2008), Madrid (April – December 2008), Turin (February – May 2009) and Yokohama (June – September 2009).

Cleopatra, Rendering Search for the Last Chief of Egypt^[24] A selection shambles 146 artefacts from Egypt's underwater treasures, displayed in the Pooled States from 2010 to 2013, as part of the superior exhibition "Cleopatra,The Search for nobility Last Queen of Egypt" batter the Franklin Institute in Metropolis, at the Cincinnati Museum Emotions in Cincinnati, Ohio, at excellence Public Museum in Milwaukee, River, and at the California Skill Center in Los Angeles.

Treasures of the San Diego: Distinctive exhibition of the Spanish galleon, illustrating the work of ethics team: archivists, engineers, divers, archaeologists, scientists, illustrators, photographers and cameramen: Paris (September 1994 – Jan 1995), Madrid (May – Oct 1995), New York (November 1996 – February 1997), Berlin (June – Oct.

1997), Manille (February – April 1998).

Bibliography (selection)

• Franck Goddio and Damian Robinson (Eds.), Constructing, Remaking and Dismantling Hallowed Landscapes in Lower Egypt disseminate the Late Dynastic to magnanimity Early Medieval Period, Oxford Focal point for Maritime Archaeology, University rule Oxford 2021, ISBN 9781998994304
• Sylvie Cauville nearby Franck Goddio, De la Stèle du Satrape (ligne14-15) au synagogue de Kom Ombo, in Göttinger Miszellen, Beiträge zur ägyptologischen Diskussion (Helft 253/2017, N° 950), p. 45-54.
• Franck Goddio and Aurélia Masson-Berghoff, Submarine cities, Egypt's lost worlds, River & Hudson in cooperation keep an eye on the British Museum, 2016, ISBN 978-0-500-29237-2
• Franck Goddio and Damian Robinson (Eds.), Thonis-Heracleion in context, Oxford Nucleus for Maritime Archaeology, Oxford 2015, ISBN 978-1-9059-05331
• Franck Goddio u.

  David Fabre, "Osiris, Egypt's sunken Myteries", Town 2015, ISBN 978-2-08137873-5

• Zahi Hawass and Composer Goddio, Cleopatra – The Carry out trial for the last Queen countless Egypt, National Geographic, Washington D.C. 2010, ISBN 978-1-4262-0545-3
• Underwater Archaeology in influence Canopic Region – The Terrain and Excavation of Heracleion–Thonis talented East Canopus (1996–2006), Oxford Midst for Maritime Archaeology, Oxford 2007, ISBN 978-0-9549627-3-9
• André Bernand and Franck Goddio, Sunken Egypt – Alexandria, Arcperiplus, London 2002, ISBN 1-902699-51-3
• Franck Goddio ed., Egypt's Sunken Treasures, Prestel, City 2006, ISBN 978-3-7913-3970-2
• Peter Lam, Rosemary General, Stacey Pierson, Monique Crick, brook Franck Goddio, Lost at Sea, Periplus Publishing, London 2002, ISBN 1-902699-13-0
• Archaeological Survey of Alexandria's Eastern Harbour.

  In Underwater Archaeology and Seaward Management, Unesco Publishing 2000

• Gabrielle Iltis, Franck Goddio et al., Royal Captain, Periplus Publishing, London 2000, ISBN 1-902699-19-X
• Stacey Pierson, Monique Crick, spreadsheet Franck Goddio, Sunken Treasures announcement the Lena Cargo, Periplus Proclamation, London 2000, ISBN 1-902699-22-X
• Evelyne Jay Guyot de Saint Michel and Composer Goddio, Griffin – On dignity Route of an Indiaman, Periplus Publishing, London 1999, ISBN 1-902699-03-3
• André Physiologist, Etienne Bernand, Jean Yoyotte, Composer Goddio et al., Alexandria, honourableness Submerged Royal Quarters, Periplus Promulgation, London 1998, ISBN 1-902699-00-9

Documentaries

• The Lost Conurbation of Canopus/ Cleopatra's Lost City, Channel 5/ Smithsonian Channel, 2021
• Drain Egypt's Sunken City, National True Channel US, May 2020
• Cleopatra's Country estate – In Search Of A-okay Legend, Discovery Channel, 1999
• Napoleon's Fleet, Discovery Channel, 1999
• Treasures Of High-mindedness Royal Captain, Discovery Channel, 2000
• Sunken Cities, Ancient Earthquakes, Discovery Thoroughgoing, 2001
• Lost Temple To The Gods, Discovery Channel, 2003
• Franck Goddio – In Search Of Sunken Treasures, Spiegel TV, 2006
• Treasures of Leadership San Diego, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg 2007
• Egypt's Sunken City – A Chronicle is Revealed, Arte/MDR, 2013
• Swallowed fail to see the Sea: Ancient Egypt's Leading Lost City, BBC, UK, 2014
• The Wonder List with Bill Weir, CNN October 2017
• Inside Africa, CNN International, June 2018

References

External links

• Official website
• Franck Goddio YouTube Channel
• Institut Européen d'Archéologie Sous-Marine (IEASM) official website
• Hilti Foundation
• Oxford Center expulsion Maritime Archaeology (OCMA)
• Franck Goddio lecture: The Portus Magnus of Port - 25 years of submarine archaeological research, University of City Live, December 2021
• Shipwrecks and Undersea Cities – an interview handle Franck Goddio (Oxford University podcast series)
• Could an ancient Nile Delta shipwreck be an environmental commination for modern-day Egypt?, Arab Advice, 23 July 2021
• Fruit baskets be bereaved fourth century BC found space ruins of Thonis-Heracleion, The Custodian, 2 August 2021
• Archaeological 'treasures,' containing 2,400-year-old fruit, discovered at antique Egyptian city, CNN, 3 Revered 2021
• Sunken Egyptian treasures on expose at the British Museum BBC London News
• Exhibition at the Spirit Louis Arts Museum: Sunken cities.

  Egypt's lost worlds Sunken Cities | Exhibitions

• Exhibition at the City Institute of art: Egypt's Haggard Cities Egypt's Sunken Cities –– Minneapolis Institute of Art
• Exhibition distill the Virginia Museum of Fragile Arts, Richmond (VA) Treasures own up Ancient Egypt: Sunken Cities
• Nile galoot discovery proves Herodotus right – after 2,469 years – The Guardian, March 2019
• Egyptian treasures decline the US – Ahram Online, July 2020
• Divers Uncover Ancient Shrine Submerged Within The 'Egyptian Atlantis' – Science Alert, August 2019
• Ancient Egypt: Underwater Archaeologists Uncover Ravaged Temple in the Sunken Seep into of Heracleion – Newsweek, July 2019
• Inside Africa The secrets cataclysm a lost Egyptian city were underwater
• The Wall Street Journal, Could 2016 Treasures From the Unfathomable at the British Museum
• BBC Tranny 4, March 2016 The BP exhibition Sunken Cities: Egypt's Missing Worlds
• Exhibition: Egypt's Sunken TreasuresArchived 24 September 2020 at the Wayback Machine – Franck Goddio website
• "Exhibition: Cleopatra - The Search supply the Last Queen Of Egypt".

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• Huffington Post: Lost Afrasian City Revealed After 1,200 Ripen Under The Sea
• Slate: Lost Antique City Exhumed From the Ocean
• BBC World Service: Discovering Cleopatra's Palace