Category: CULTURE
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“GR80s”: get to know the Greece of the’80s through an exhibition!
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Culture capital celebrations get underway in Paphos
A number of free events are being held in Paphos over the weekend to mark the occasion. Excitement is mounting in the town and the buoyant mood was further lifted by a superb performance from the Aarhus Jazz Orchestra at Kennedy Square in the heart of Paphos old town which was scheduled to start at…
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Egyptian museums achieve revenues of EGP 45m in 2016
According to a statement by the ministry’s museums division, the museums achieved the highest revenues in December, recording EGP 6.8m with 117,000 visitors, while the lowest revenue reached was $1.7m in June with 21,800 visitors. Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Anany told Daily News Egypt that the number of visits of museums and archaeological sites has…
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Hundreds of coffins to be restored in Egyptian conservation project
The conservation effort, funded by a US grant, will restore more than 600 wooden coffins that date to various eras of ancient Egypt and which are currently stored at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. “There has been no other project like this worldwide, with this number of coffins being documented or restored,” said head of…