In 2001, Egypt signed the United Nations Cultural Organ Convention on Underwater Cultural Heritage, limiting the recovery of submerged artifacts.
“The rest will remain in our flowed inheritance,” said Fathi speaking to the media.
“The artifacts you see date back to successive periods, from the Ptolemaic era,” said Mohamed Ismail, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Egyptian Antiquities. The Ptolemaic era lasted almost 300 years and was followed by Roman domination, which lasted around 600 years.
