Event
UNESCO underwater archaeological mission: Exhibition and documentary premiere
Closing event of the underwater archaeological mission in the Mediterranean
On World Oceans Day, UNESCO presents the results of an unprecedented international underwater archaeological mission in the Mediterranean, which took place in the summer of 2022 under the aegis of UNESCO.
During the event, the successful implementation of two autonomous projects, on the Skerki Bank (Tunisian continental shelf) and on the Sicilian Channel (Italian continental shelf), will be shared through an exhibition and a documentary film.
The public is invited to attend:
- Inauguration of a photo exhibition by Angel Fitor documenting life on board,
- Premiere of a documentary filmed during the mission (Gédéon Programmes)
About the mission
An international team of underwater archaeologists from Algeria, Croatia, Egypt, France, Italy, Morocco, Spain and Tunisia came together for a multilateral underwater archaeological mission in the international waters into two autonomous projects.
The historic mission, first to take place within the framework of the 2001 Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, aimed to improve the mapping and the knowledge of the shipwrecks and sunken artefacts in the Mediterranean through two autonomous projects.
For 14 days aboard the French scientific vessel Alfred Merlin, the team of scientists worked in close collaboration, creating an impetus towards a new multilateral policy to protect underwater cultural heritage in the long term as shared heritage of humanity.
