Les statues bougent à Alexandrie

2016
Réalisé par Raymond Collet
Collection Impressions alexandrines

In Alexandria, the statues are on the move. So too are the obelisks – those blocks weighing over 750 tonnes, quarried in Aswan and erected by the Pharaohs in the Sanctuary of the Sun at Heliopolis. The Ptolemies ‘borrowed’ them to adorn their new capital, and the Roman emperors followed suit. These stones then travelled to Rome, London and New York, where they currently stand. In modern times, marble and bronze statues were commissioned in Paris and Athens to adorn the squares of Alexandria: the statue of Saad Zaghloul, and the equestrian statues of Muhammad Ali and Alexander the Great. Some, such as those of Nubar Pasha or Khedive Ismail, were toppled after the 1952 Revolution. They were thought to be consigned to oblivion, but they suddenly reappeared around 2000 in new locations across the city, though the ideology behind this rehabilitation—which does not erase history—remains unexplained.

documentary at the link:

https://www.cealex.org/ressources-documentaires/videotheque/statues-bougent-alexandrie/