Tourism and Archeology
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Minister of Antiquities: 1st phase of GEM to be inaugurated during Q1 of 2019
Date: 2018-06-10 10:52:18 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:20 - ID:7437811
GIZA, June 10 (MENA) - With 50,000 artifacts niched, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is set to become the world's biggest museum of ancient Egyptian civilization, said Minister of Antiquities Khaled el Anani Sunday. The first phase of the GEM ....
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4,400 Tutankhamun antiquities moved to GEM -- minister
Date: 2018-06-10 10:48:35 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:19 - ID:7437843
GIZA, Egypt, June 10 (MENA) - As many as 4,400 antiquities of the Tutankhamun collection have been moved to the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), said Antiquities Minister Khaled Anani on Sunday. A total of 5,000 Tutankhamun artifacts had been planned ....
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German-designed GEM logo reflects museum's geometric structure
Date: 2018-06-10 10:33:26 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:17 - ID:7437840
GIZA, Egypt, June 10 (MENA) - Tareq Tawfiq, the supervisor of the Grand Egyptian Museum project, said the new logo of the museum will help in launching a large-scale promotion campaign inside and outside Egypt. The logo was forged by a German ....
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Press conf. to be held Sunday to announce details of GEM operation
Date: 2018-06-09 16:01:07 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:45 - ID:7437089
CAIRO, June 9 (MENA) - A press conference will be held Sunday to announce the start of pre-qualification for the management and operation of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) services. The conference will be held at the museum's headquarters at El ....
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Egypt’s envoy, Serbian Patriarch review efforts of reviving route of Holy Family’s journey
Date: 2018-06-09 14:27:32 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:38 - ID:7436902
CAIRO, June 9 (MENA) – Egyptian Ambassador in Belgrade Amr el Guwaili reviewed with Serbian Patriarch Irinej efforts that Cairo has been undertaking to revive the route of the Holy Family's journey to Egypt as a main pilgrimage destination for ....
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Antiquities Ministry to reveal logo of GEM Sunday
Date: 2018-06-08 15:17:35 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:31 - ID:7435857
CAIRO, June 8 (MENA) - The Antiquities Ministry, in cooperation with the Investment and International Cooperation Ministry and the Armed Forces Engineering Authority, will announce in a press conference on Sunday the launching of the preliminary ....
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9 restored artifacts placed at Egyptian Museum warehouses - ministry
Date: 2018-06-07 13:26:20 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:40 - ID:7434512
CAIRO, June 7 (MENA) - The Antiquities Ministry placed the nine artifacts that were restored from France at the warehouses of the Egyptian Museum, a ministry official said Thursday. The nine pieces, including a painting of a wood-made pharaonic ....
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Antiquities Ministry restores nine smuggled artifacts from France
Date: 2018-06-07 11:41:43 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:26 - ID:7434174
CAIRO June 7 (MENA) - The Foreign Ministry handed over nine artifacts to the Antiquities Ministry after being restored from France, a Foreign Ministry official said Thursday. The Egyptian embassy in Paris made necessary contacts with the French ....
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Egypt 1st Arab country to chair committee on preventing illicit import, export of cultural property
Date: 2018-06-06 12:44:43 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:42 - ID:7432833
CAIRO, June 6 (MENA) - Egypt is the first Arab country to be elected to chair the sub-committee of the 1970 convention on the means of prohibiting and preventing the illicit import, export and transfer of ownership of cultural property, said an ....
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SCA chief heads for Italy to examine seized artifacts
Date: 2018-06-04 15:14:21 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:70 - ID:7430221
CAIRO, June 4 (MENA) - Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Antiquities (SCA) Moustafa Wazeri will head for Italy on Tuesday in order to examine the suspected Egyptian artifacts seized in the Italian city of Naples. The visit comes in ....