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Antiquities Minister inaugurates open-air museum in Cairo’s Matareya
Archaeology
February 17, 2018
Antiquities Minister inaugurates open-air museum in Cairo’s Matareya
Egypt Antiquities Minister Khalid al-Anani on Saturday inaugurated the open-air museum at the al-Masalla area of the Matareya neighborhood northeast…
New Israeli exhibit highlights power of photos in Holocaust
Middle East
January 25, 2018
New Israeli exhibit highlights power of photos in Holocaust
Staring at grainy video footage of Jewish children marching to their freedom though the barbed-wire fences of the Auschwitz death…
First Bashary tribe museum established in Shalateen city
Egypt
January 1, 2018
First Bashary tribe museum established in Shalateen city
Artist Aboul Hassan al-Dakrouny has established a museum in an effort to collect and document the leather handicrafts and art…
Egypt moves ancient gate to new museum
Archaeology
December 7, 2017
Egypt moves ancient gate to new museum
Egyptian authorities have moved a gate dating back nearly 3,000 years from north Cairo to a new museum near the…
First regional museum in Matruh almost ready for inauguration
Archaeology
October 26, 2017
First regional museum in Matruh almost ready for inauguration
Major General Alaa Abu Zeid, governor of Matruh governorate, and head of the Antiquities Ministry’s Museums Sector Elham Salah Eddin,…
Naguib Mahfouz museum to open door to visitors December: Culture minister
Culture
September 15, 2017
Naguib Mahfouz museum to open door to visitors December: Culture minister
Egypt’s culture minister said that the Naguib Mahfouz museum will be ready to start receiving visitors in December, a step…
Egypt to turn administrative building of Suez Canal to museum by 2019
Egypt
August 29, 2017
Egypt to turn administrative building of Suez Canal to museum by 2019
Governor of the Port Said Major General Adel al-Ghadban, revealed plans to turn the historical administrative building of Suez Canal…
Saudi Museum unveiled at Egypt’s Pharaonic Village
Culture
August 4, 2017
Saudi Museum unveiled at Egypt’s Pharaonic Village
The Pharaonic Village declared recently that a Saudi museum has been inaugurated as one of the attraction’s iconic exhibitions, according to…
Police foil attempt to steal goddess Isis statue in Nubia Museum
Archaeology
July 24, 2017
Police foil attempt to steal goddess Isis statue in Nubia Museum
Police and employees of the Nubia Museum in Aswan on Sunday foiled an attempt to steal a statue depicting goddess…
AUC hands over 5,000 artifacts from 1964 Fustat excavation
Archaeology
June 14, 2017
AUC hands over 5,000 artifacts from 1964 Fustat excavation
The American University in Cairo (AUC) handed over 5,000 historical artifacts to Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities, a collection which it…