Tourism and Archeology

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  • Antiquities min. hails discovery of Al-Asasif Cachette

    Date: 2019-10-19 14:41:53 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:28 - ID:8151852

    LUXOR, Oct 19 (MENA) – Minister of Antiquities Khaled el Anany has praised the recent discovery of Al-Asasif Cachette of intact and sealed coffins in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Luxor. He said on Saturday that all coffins uncovered in the ....

  • Cypriot cruise ship arrives at Alexandria port

    Date: 2019-10-19 08:58:26 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:12 - ID:8151460

    ALEXANDRIA, Oct 19 (MENA) - A Cypriot cruise ship carrying 500 tourists of different nationalities arrived at Alexandria port on Saturday. SALAMIS FILOXENIA ship carries on board the Mayor of the Cypriot city of Paphos, Phedonas Phedonos, ....

  • CNN sheds light on wellness tourism in Luxor

    Date: 2019-10-16 20:43:49 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:88 - ID:8148362

    CAIRO, Oct 16 (MENA) – CNN shed light on the wellness tourism in Egypt by screening a short video on a new kind of tourism in the country: Kemetic Yoga. The three-minute video was filmed by CNN in Egypt's Luxor city in cooperation with the ....

  • Tourist arrested over illegally climbing Great Pyramid

    Date: 2019-10-16 20:35:46 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:87 - ID:8148329

    CAIRO, Oct 16 (MENA) – The Ministry of Antiquities said that a foreign tourist was arrested for climbing the Great Pyramid of Giza in violation of the law. The ministry said in a statement on Wednesday that tourism police personnel forced the ....

  • Outer lid of King Tut's sarcophagus reinstalled

    Date: 2019-10-16 12:54:17 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:54 - ID:8147484

    CAIRO, Oct 16 (MENA) - The Antiquities Ministry said that the outer lid of the sarcophagus of famed boy pharaoh Tutankhamun has been reinstalled in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Upper Egypt. A statement to this effect was released by ....

  • British, French delegations visit archaeological sites in Minya

    Date: 2019-10-15 14:15:29 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:53 - ID:8146049

    MINYA, Egypt, Oct 15 (MENA) - Two tourist delegations from Britain and France have visited archaeological sites in Minya governorate to get acquainted with the ancient Egyptian civilization, Minya Governor Qassem Hussein said. In a statement on ....

  • Shooting of Death on the Nile film starts on Oct. 2020

    Date: 2019-10-14 13:46:48 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:37 - ID:8144431

    LUXOR, Upper Egypt, Oct 14 (MENA) - The shooting of the Death on the Nile film, which is based on the 1937 novel of the same name by English writer Agatha Christie, will take place here in October 2020, said Chairman of Luxor's Tourism and Travel ....

  • Hawass: Int'l conference to discuss relocating Tutankhamun's mummy from Luxor to Cairo's Grand Museum

    Date: 2019-10-10 15:12:24 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:65 - ID:8139179

    LUXOR, Egypt, Oct 10 (MENA) - Prominent Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass said that a proposal on relocating the mummy of Tutankhamun which is currently placed in his tomb (KV62) at Luxor's Valley of the Kings to the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo ....

  • Cabinet reviews report on structural reforms of tourism sector

    Date: 2019-10-10 14:27:39 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:57 - ID:8139164

    CAIRO, Oct 10 (MENA) - The cabinet under Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli reviewed on Thursday a report by Tourism Minister Rania el Mashat on following up the structural reform program to develop the tourism sector. After ten months of sustained ....

  • Tourism minister welcomes return of Stockholm-Sharm flights

    Date: 2019-10-10 13:25:33 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:51 - ID:8139236

    CAIRO, Oct 10 (MENA) - Tourism Minister Rania El Mashat welcomed on Thursday the return of direct flights between Sweden's Stockholm and the Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheikh after almost nine-year hiatus. She stressed that such a move reflects ....

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