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GEM, E-JUST to ink MoU to preserve Egyptian heritage

Date: 2018-03-27 14:27:42 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:82 - ID:7318576

CAIRO, March 27 (MENA) - The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) will host on Thursday the inking ceremony of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Egypt-Japan University for Science and Technology(E-JUST). The ceremony will be attended by ....

Antiquities: Egypt restores 3 smuggled antiquities

Date: 2018-03-27 09:29:17 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:27 - ID:7317949

CAIRO, March 27 (MENA) - The Ministry of Antiquities, in cooperation with the Foreign Ministry, succeeded to retrieve three artifacts that were smuggled abroad. Egypt's General Consulate in New York has received the pieces that will be flown ....

Antiquities, tourism ministers back home after US visit

Date: 2018-03-26 15:34:14 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:144 - ID:7316544

CAIRO, March 26 (MENA) - Minister of Antiquities Khaled el Anani and Tourism Minister Rania el Mashat returned home on Monday, wrapping up a several-day visit to the US. During the visit, both ministers inaugurated “King Tut: Treasures of the ....

Egypt's antiquities place Egypt among major tourist destinations in world - minister

Date: 2018-03-26 10:24:42 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:45 - ID:7315292

CAIRO, March 26 (MENA) - Egypt's antiquities place Egypt among the world's major tourist destinations, said Tourism Minister Rania Mashat. The minister made the remarks during her participation in the “King Tut: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh” ....

Tourism minister eases sanctions against some tour operators

Date: 2018-03-23 16:20:22 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:48 - ID:7311193

CAIRO, March 23 (MENA) – Tourism Minister Rania el Mashat issued Friday 88 decisions for reducing and lifting penalties on some tourist companies. The decisions came according to recommendations of the ministry’s legal committee which reviewed ....

Antiquities ministry inaugurates Egyptian sunken artifacts exhibition in US

Date: 2018-03-23 15:05:42 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:43 - ID:7311047

CAIRO, March 23 (MENA) – Minister of Antiquities Khaled Anani inaugurated on Friday the Egyptian sunken artifacts exhibition in US. Titled "Sunken Cities: Egypt’s Lost Worlds," the exhibition runs till September at the St. Louis Art ....

Tourism minister heads to Los Angeles on golden pharaoh exhibition

Date: 2018-03-23 14:34:41 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:37 - ID:7310973

CAIRO, March 23 (MENA) – Tourism Minister Rania el Mashat travelled on Friday to Los Angeles to take part in the inauguration of the exhibition of King Tut: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh. In pre-departure statements, el Mashat said her ministry ....

National Museum of Egyptian Civilization receives 350 artifacts from Egyptian Museum

Date: 2018-03-22 15:02:24 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:62 - ID:7309077

CAIRO, March 22 (MENA) - The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in the ancient city of Fustat in Cairo received 350 antiquities to be displayed in the new showrooms this year. In a statement by the museum curator Mahrous Saied on Tuesday, ....

Sunken antiquities exhibition in St. Louis peace message from Egypt to US -- minister

Date: 2018-03-22 11:49:26 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:31 - ID:7308382

CAIRO, March 22 (MENA) - The Egyptian sunken antiquities exhibition, held in St. Louis city in the United States, is a peace message from the Egyptian people to the US people, Antiquities Minister Khaled Anani said. Anani was speaking at an ....

Antiquities Ministry receives 36 artifacts

Date: 2018-03-20 17:51:20 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:96 - ID:7305945

CAIRO, March 20 (MENA) - The Antiquities Ministry received on Tuesday 36 artifacts from Ataba's express mail service. The artifacts were seized by the mail service’s archaeological unit over the past few years, while an attempt to smuggle them ....