Seshat
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NEWS: Underwater Museum Planned for Alexandria
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Cleopatra's palace sank long ago into the Mediterranean, but visitors to Alexandria, Egypt, may eventually view the complex's remnants via the world's first underwater museum. (See photos.)
A site for the museum has been proposed near the New Library of Alexandria, where the famed queen of Egypt is believed to have sheltered herself with her lover Marc Antony before taking her own life...
...If built, the museum could display treasures and monuments of her palace, which once stood on an island in one of the largest human-made bays in the world but were submerged by earthquakes from the fourth century A.D. onward...
For more read here: 
National Geographic
This sounds like a magnificent idea, but will probably take many years to realise. If it does work out, though, I reckon it will be a huge benefit to tourism and Egyptology. 
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