Category: CULTURE
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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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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…
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The Alexandria International Conference on Maritime and Underwater Archaeology
Not only had the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities paid attention to afford the opportunity to excavations in Egypt by foreign missions specialized in underwater and marine archaeology and collaborated in their scientific and archaeological work, but also founded the Department of Underwater Antiquities in Alexandria in 1996 to be the specialized annex of the Ministry…
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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…