150,000 Americans visit Hatshepsut in one week
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150,000 Americans visit Hatshepsut in one week


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"San Francisco Mayor Newsom Gavin attends Monday an Egyptian cultural night organized by the Egyptian consulate in the city to make the formal inauguration of the Egyptian antiquities exhibition "Hatshepsut from queen to pharaoh". The event will be also attended by Nancy Pelosi, leader of the Democrat minority at the House of Representatives and a large ' number of businessmen, diplomats, and artists in California. Egypt's consul general in San Francisco ambassador Abdel Rahman Salah said the number of Americans who visited the exhibition in the first week exceeded 150,000".
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