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Egypt restores Greco-Roman statute from Germany
Date: 2013-10-10 13:10:39 GMT - Egypt - Culture - SN:11 - ID:332067
Egypt's Antiquities Ministry restored from Germany this week a lion-shaped statute dating back to the Greco-Roman era, Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said Thursday. The 19cm-high and 12cm-wide marble statute was in the possession of a German citizen ....
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Tourism minister returns from France
Date: 2013-09-27 20:36:57 GMT - Egypt - Culture - SN:7 - ID:310944
Tourism Minister Hisgam Zazou returned home on Friday from Europe where he visited Germany and France. He asked the two countries to lift their ban on travel to Egypt. They agreed. ....
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Antiquities minister denies items missing from Islamic museum
Date: 2013-09-09 15:32:21 GMT - Egypt - Culture - SN:21 - ID:281086
Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim denied the disappearance of any artifacts from the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo. The photos of artifacts on display in a Qatari museum that were circulated on social media websites were not from the ....
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Antiquities min. to hold press conference Monday over revealing of Islamic Museum items in Qatar
Date: 2013-09-09 09:55:54 GMT - Egypt - Culture - SN:6 - ID:280316
Egypt’s Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim will hold a press conference on Monday over reports that items of the Islamic Museum have been revealed in an exhibition in Qatar. Earlier, Ibrahim has formed a committee of experts and academicians ....
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Ras el-Tin palace to be included among Islamic, Coptic antiquities
Date: 2013-09-05 15:42:54 GMT - Egypt - Culture - SN:25 - ID:275173
The Board of Directors of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), under State Minister of Antiquities Mohmaed Ibrahim, approved to include Ras el–Tin Palace in Alexandria among the Islamic and Coptic antiquities. In statements Thursday, ....
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Tourism promotion campaign message to world that Egypt is safe - minister
Date: 2013-09-05 13:41:51 GMT - Egypt - Culture - SN:16 - ID:274874
Egypt's antiquities minister said the campaign to promote Egyptian tourism to be launched at the Giza Pyramid plateau on Thursday is a message to the entire world that Egypt is a safe country. Mohamed Ibrahim, in press statements, said the ....
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Antiquities Minister, UNESCO team discuss rehabilitating Malawy Museum
Date: 2013-09-02 15:38:49 GMT - Egypt - Culture - SN:19 - ID:270042
Minister of Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim met Monday with UNESCO officials to discuss whether the organization can contribute to renovating the Malawy Museum in the Upper Egyptian city of Menia. The museum was destroyed in terrorist acts about ....
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3 artifacts stolen from from Mit Rahina area "retrieved" - antiquities ministry
Date: 2013-08-27 14:47:53 GMT - Egypt - Culture - SN:27 - ID:260686
The State Ministry of Antiquities managed to retrieve three artifacts, which were stolen from the area of Mit Rahina following the January 25 Revolution. The remark was made by State Minister of Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim on Tuesday. ....
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Antiquities minister denies encroachment on archaeological area in Menya
Date: 2013-08-25 11:44:36 GMT - Egypt - Culture - SN:14 - ID:257321
Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim denied on Saturday any encroachments on Hagg Qandil archeological area in Tell el-Amarna in Menya governorate. In a press release, Ibrahim asserted that security measures had been intensified to prevent ....
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Antiquities ministry retrieves 14 artifacts looted from Malawi museum
Date: 2013-08-23 09:44:04 GMT - Egypt - Culture - SN:1 - ID:254588
Minister of Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim announced Thursday that fifteen of artifacts looted from the Malawi national museum in the Upper Egyptian city of Menya have been restored. Earlier on Thursday a committee assigned to count the stolen ....