Author: Athanasios Koutoupas
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Alexandria Chamber of Shipping discusses twinning agreement with Greece, Cyprus
Chairperson of Alexandria Chamber of Shipping Mohamed Meselhy met with FONASBA president Glen Gordon Findaly on the sidelines of the annual meeting to discuss the challenges in maritime transport and the necessary mechanisms to deal with them. Meselhy said that they discussed the supporting mechanisms needed to create healthy competition among operators and maritime agents…
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Greek Embassy Reopens in Tripoli, Libya
Having deemed the area where the former embassy had been housed as unsafe, Greek authorities are currently looking at other embassy facilities in the city where previous diplomatic operations of other countries had operated. The return of Greek diplomatic representation to Libya merely reaffirms the close partnership that both countries have always enjoyed with numerous bilateral agreements.…
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Tuthmosis II shrine in Karnak temple ready to open after restoration
Mahmoud Afifi, the head of the ancient Egyptian Antiquities Section at the Ministry of Antiquities said that after its reconstruction in 2010, the most delicate operation was then conducted which aimed to replace the fragments of the ceiling slab and of a lintel, which were broken in many fragments. French Egyptologist Christophe Thiers, director…
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Ancient Greeks may have built China’s famous Terracotta Army – 1,500 years before Marco Polo
The startling claim is based on two key pieces of evidence: European DNA discovered at sites in China’s Xinjiang province from the time of the First Emperor in the Third Century BC and the sudden appearance of life-sized statues. Before this time, depictions of humans in China are thought to have been figurines of up…