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Egypt’s tourism and antiquities minister on Tuesday inaugurated two museums inside Cairo International Airport in observance of International Museum Day, celebrated annually on May 18.
The new museums are inside Terminals 2 and 3 and will hold artefacts to give travellers a “glimpse of Egypt’s treasures”, said an official Tourism Ministry announcement released on Facebook on Tuesday.
The artefacts were chosen to represent the Egypt s various civilisational eras including the Pharaonic, Greco-Roman, Coptic and Islamic periods.
Most of the pieces were in storage at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square, the Suez Museum and Alexandria’s Greco-Roman Museum, said Prof Moamen Othman, head of the ministry’s museums department.
Egypt recovers new part of sunken ship from Red Sea Cairo is celebrating the discovery of another portion of a ship sunk in the Red Sea in the 18th century carrying a treasure trove of artifacts.
This picture taken Oct. 4, 2003, shows statues from the Ptolemic period that were found in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Alexandria at the Egyptian northern port s National Museum.
April 21, 2021
The archaeological mission of the Faculty of Arts of Alexandria University recently discovered the bow of a sunken ship near the Red Sea island of Saadana with 1,606 artifacts. Other parts of the ship had been uncovered earlier during excavation work in 1994.
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CAIRO: Ancient Egyptian artifacts that were part of a touring exhibition to Europe and the US have returned home, the country’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has said.
“The Secrets of Sunken Egypt” featured items that had been discovered underwater, in the Mediterranean Sea, in Alexandria.
Mostafa Waziry, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the show had achieved great success in all of its host cities.
Waziry added that the exhibition began its worldwide tour at the Institute of the Arab World in Paris in 2015, moving to the British Museum and then onto Zurich’s Rietberg Museum, which was the last stop in its European journey.