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Ramses II, Nefertari love story on BBC
Date: 2014-05-10 07:25:57 GMT - Egypt - Culture - SN:11 - ID:712849
A BBC staff visited the Temple of Abu Simbel on Friday to film a documentary about Queen Nefertari's love story with King Ramses II. Director General of the temple Ahmed Saleh said the British delegation was headed by famous mummies researcher ....
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Pharaonic tomb unearthed in Aswan
Date: 2014-05-06 18:18:23 GMT - Egypt - Culture - SN:68 - ID:707172
An archeological tomb of the pre-dynastic era has been discovered in the Upper Egyptian city of Edfu, Aswan province, Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said. A mummy, a 32 cm-high statue made of ivory, ten ivory combs along with a number of ....
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Tutankhamun's tomb replica inauguration to revive tourism sector: Zazou
Date: 2014-04-30 08:49:21 GMT - Egypt - Culture - SN:17 - ID:695763
Tourism Minister Hisham Zazou said Wednesday that Tutankhamun's tomb replica inauguration later in the day is a very important international event, asserting that it would get the attention back to the Egyptian tourism. Zazou added that such ....
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Valley of kings cemetery is Great discovery: Minister
Date: 2014-04-30 08:47:30 GMT - Egypt - Culture - SN:16 - ID:695755
State Minister of Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim said Wednesday that the cemetery which was discovered a few days ago in the valley of kings is a great discovery and it is under study to define the dynasty it belongs to. Ibrahim said in ....
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Antiquities Minister: Historic Cairo Project includes removing all buildings in Tahrir Square
Date: 2014-04-29 15:09:05 GMT - Egypt - Culture - SN:34 - ID:694566
Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said that the new historic Cairo project includes removing all buildings in Tahrir Square except the Egyptian Museum. The project will also include establishing tourist stores a la the French tourist stores ....
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Ten archaeological masterpieces restored
Date: 2014-04-29 12:47:47 GMT - Egypt - Culture - SN:16 - ID:694300
Minister of Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim announced on Tuesday restoring ten archaeological masterpieces that have been stolen from the Tahrir-based Egyptian Museum on January 28, 2011, during the unrest that broke out at the time. At a press ....
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Huge tomb discovered in Luxor
Date: 2014-04-28 12:31:03 GMT - Egypt - Culture - SN:53 - ID:692256
A huge tomb was discovered in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Antiquities Minister Mohamad Ibrahim said Monday. The tomb contains about 50 mummies, wood coffins and cartonnage, a type of material composing Egyptian funerary masks from the ....
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Egypt to restore 3 smuggled artifacts from Germany -- minister
Date: 2014-04-28 07:17:34 GMT - Egypt - Culture - SN:1 - ID:691345
Egypt will restore three smuggled antiquities from Germany next week, said the Minister of Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim on Sunday. The artifacts are to be handed over to the Egyptian embassy in Berlin on Tuesday. They were smuggled to Germany ....
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Antiquities ministry asks governor to halt Fustat area works
Date: 2014-04-22 13:05:52 GMT - Egypt - Culture - SN:28 - ID:681807
Head of the Islamic and Coptic Monuments Department at the Antiquities Ministry Smarat Hafez said he asked the antiquities minister and the Supreme Council of Antiquities' chief to direct Cairo governor not to establish any projects on the ....
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Antiquities minister inspects conditions in el-Moaz street
Date: 2014-04-19 11:46:00 GMT - Egypt - Culture - SN:34 - ID:676595
Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim went on an inspection tour of archaeological el-Moaz street located here to make sure that the instructions that he gave to close the street in front of the vehicles are implemented. Ibrahim hailed that there ....
