Martin Gayford

What lies beneath | 2 June 2016

<p class="p1"><span class="s1">There’s plenty of drama, much cultural fusion and several distinctly weird masterpieces in this new exhibition exploring the lost cities of the Egyptian Nile Delta</span></p>

issue 04 June 2016

  • Sunken cities: Egypt’s lost worlds

    British Museum, until 27 November

It was not so unusual for someone to turn into a god in Egypt. It happened to the Emperor Hadrian’s lover, a beautiful young man named Antinous, who was drowned in the Nile in the autumn of 130 AD. It was also the fate of Queen Arsinoë II, who had a complicated life.

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