Author: Athanasios Koutoupas
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Two new pharaonic cemeteries discovered in Aswan
Nasr Salama, head of the ministry’s department for Aswan and Nubia antiquities, said the two cemeteries were badly preserved, with no inscriptions were found on the walls. However, the remains of tombs and mummies were found inside. Salama said that stairs were discovered that lead to a small, square burial chamber. The discovery was made…
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Egypt’s Grand Museum, National Museum of Egyptian Civilization to have separate management
Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany said the decree states that every authority would have its own board of trustees composed of a group of Egyptian and prominent international public figures with experience in the field. Every board would draft the museum’s general policies, setting up a work programme and managing the museum’s budget through studying the…
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Funding Entrepreneurship in Cairo
In January of this year, the CBE launched a program to finance 350,000 SMEs for EGP 200 billion (US $22.5 billion) over the next four years, with a declining interest rate of 5% annually, and introduced a policy that will oblige banks to commit 20% of their total loan portfolio to SMEs. But in spite of these…
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3,800-Year-Old ‘Tableau’ of Egyptian Boats Discovered
The tableau, as the series of images is called, would have looked upon a real wooden boat said Josef Wegner, a curator at the Penn Museum at the University of Pennsylvania, who led the excavation. Only a few planks remain of the wooden boat, which would have been constructed at Abydos or dragged across the…